Film: Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)

[Zadius Sky]

The following link is a scene from "Meetings With Remarkable Men," a film directed by Peter Brook (1979):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23HFQcEFYO8

Peter Brook had adapted Gurdjieff's second series of "All and Everything" for a film. Brook was influenced by Gurdjieff's work, for his legendary experimental plays.

More on this film:

http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:32094

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079542/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetings_with_Remarkable_Men

As you can see from the first link above, the scene showed three dances. Question becomes...are the dances protrayed in the film accurate?

I am planning on to find this film. Does anyone ever watch it? If so, what are your thoughts?

 

[Alada]

The dances were directed by Jeanne de Salzmann one of Gurdjieffs pupils, short bio HERE. So I guess they are accurate from that perspective.

Its a good film to watch, though some of the acting is terrible, I sometimes wonder if this wasn't deliberate though! It gives an idea of what was necessary in terms of efforts to find the knowledge he sought. Acting aside, its still worth seeing.

There's a longer film of movements with some commentary from Madame de Salzmann HERE. The film quality is not very good, but worth a look.

 

[Nook]

The full movie can be seen on youtube here . We're watching it right now. It was uploaded in April, 2011.