Wild Combination is director Matt Wolf's 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 Arthur prolifically created music that spanned an extraordinary diversity of styles and won the love of artistic communities that would seem utterly disparate. His collaborators and most ardent supporters ranged from Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg to rock bands like The Talking Heads and The Modern Lovers; the pre-Studio 54 disco scene of Nicky Siano's Gallery... and David Mancuso's Loft; and DJ-producers like Francois Kevorkian and Larry Levan among others. Arthur's music spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art and now over fifteen years since his passing his work is still being embraced by new and ever growing audiences. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family friends and closest collaborators including (in order of appearance) the musician and writer David Toop (who did the last print interview with Russell) parents Chuck and Emily Russell Allen Ginsberg Ernie Brooks (The Modern Lovers The Necessaries) Philip Glass Russell's partner Tom Lee Steve Knutson of Audika Records (responsible for reissuing Russell's work in recent years) the singer-songwriter Jens Lekman and others. [show more]
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Documentary portrait of avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely AIDS-related death in 1992, Russell created music that covered an extraordinary diversity of styles and attracted plaudits from a wide range of fellow artists; from composer Philip Glass and poet Allen Ginsberg to bands like Talking Heads and the Modern Lovers, from the pre-Studio 54 New York disco operators to the progenitors of house and techno. In recent years, Russell's music has grown in stature and the film features contributions from fans, friends and family alike, as well as a host of rare archival footage.
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