3 American LP’s

3 AMERICAN LP’S was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three LP’s. There was a song by Van Morrison, another by Harvey Mandel, and one of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

It was mainly the music and some shots out of a car, landscapes out of the car window. And it had a little bit of commentary – dialogue between Peter and me about American music and about how American rock music was about emotion and images instead of sounds. That is to say, about a kind of phenomenon, that it was in a way a kind of film music, but without a moving picture.

Format

West Germany 1969
Length: 12 min
Format: 16mm Eastman Color


Cast and crew

Production: Wim Wenders Produktion, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main Director: Wim Wenders Screenplay: Peter Handke Cast: Peter Handke, Wim Wenders Music: Van Morrison, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Harvey Mandel World Sales: HanWay Films


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