Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer, Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Russell created a huge body of music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over 15 years since his passing, his work is finally finding its audience.

Director Matt Wolf was intrigued with Russell’s music, he said, even before he had heard it. “My friend described a long forgotten gay disco auteur in a farmer’s plaid shirt, obsessively listening to mixes of his own music on the Staten Island Ferry. That image alone was enough, but when I heard the emotional intensity and the complex beauty in Arthur’s music, I was obsessed.”

Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur’s family, friends, and closest collaborators—including his parents Chuck and Emily Russell, partner Tom Lee, Allen Ginsberg and Philip Glass—to tell this poignant and important story.

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)

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USA

Language:

English

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No Rating

Director(s):

Matt Wolf


Matt Wolf

Born in San Jose, California in 1982, Matt Wolf began his career in independent film with Golden Gums in 2002. It was the first of a series of three experimental films, with Smalltown Boys, 2003, and I Feel Love, in 2004 completing the trilogy. He is also the director of Sundance Channel’s High Line Stories (2009), a series that tells the story of the High Line in New York City, and its transformation from a neglected elevated railway into a park in the sky.

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