Getting Ready

‘The hours before a concert – a pianist prepares himself. Frangcon Davies plays the part of the pianist in this film. But he is a real pianist, and it is not just a part: ‘As everyone knows, you get extremely nervous before a concert – the Bedouins have an exercise before they go out hunting.’
‘Thom Osborn shot the main, black-and-white, fiction part of this film some thirty years ago. Recently he interviewed, in colour, the pianist and his wife from the film. They tell us, with a documentary edge, how they now perceive the event. Looking back on the preparation needed for any big event highlights the need for focus and an isolating preoccupation.’ -T.O.