A BRIGHT NOWHERE - Journeying into Improvisation2023

A documentary drawn from a remarkable series of concerts of improvised music at London’s Café OTO. Filmed across four Saturday nights in July 2022 when over 30 musicians joined improviser, percussionist and animateur Eddie Prévost on stage for a residency marking his 80th birthday. 

The film offers a candid look at improvisers who create music in the moment, free from the authority of a composer, score or conductor.  Including interviews with John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser, Marjolaine Charbin, Nathan Moore, Alan Wilkinson, Sue Lynch, John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost. There is also a glimpse inside the London improvisation workshop established by Prévost in 1999, and readings by musician and author David Toop. 

The film culminates with the final ever concert by the pioneering group AMM – a combustible duet between Eddie Prévost and Keith Rowe incorporating samples of recordings by the group’s absent third member, John Tilbury.
103 mins | UK | 2023 | 16:9 | Stereo