How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and shame possessed the heart of the young Germans. They needed to invent, scream, regain a lost brotherhood. Overcome this silence! That’s how some young German, British, Dutch, Belgian… musicians made Europe exist long before Maastrich and have kept on cherishing, imperturbably, their freedom! They are no longer twenty-year-olds, but others have followed. They set themselves one constraint: reinvent everything every time. A way to take the very instant into account, to let the unexpected in, to match to the world.
Direction
Josse lets the music breathe; no talking heads, just presence.
Sound
The sax doesn't just play—it assaults, mourns, rebuilds.
Director
Bernard Josse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brötzmann's 'Machine Gun' (1968) became the unofficial anthem of European free jazz—a sonic middle finger to both American dominance and German silence.
The film's title references Brötzmann's constant touring; he famously said he 'lives in cars and hotels, not countries.'
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