Step Across the Border

Step Across the Border is a 1990 avantgarde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith. It was written and directed by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel and released in Germany and Switzerland. The film was screened in cinemas in North America, South America, Europe and Japan, and on television in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. It was also released on VHS by RecRec Music Switzerland in 1990, and was later released on DVD by Winter amp Winter Germany in 2003.

Improvisation here refers not only to the music, but also to the film itself. Humbert and Penzel state in the 2003 DVD release of the filmThe film is not narrated, and the musicians, the music and the locations are not identified. Instead it is a sequence of snapshots taken of Frith and musicians he has worked with, rehearsing and performing, interspersed with apparent random images of movement trains, cars, people, grass that blend in with the music. The improvised nature of the film and its Direct Cinema approach make it more of an art film than simply a documentary on a musician. ........

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