The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau

The Radical Expeditions of Walter Boudreau

2015 · 4 min · Drama

This micro-epic short film is an inspired tribute to visionary avant-garde composer Walter Boudreau: his life, work, mischief, and boundless artistic curiosity. Both a documentary biopic and a wildly abstract hallucination, the film conceives of Walter Boudreau as a radical explorer, struggling against the inert mass of the cosmos, charting bold new paths of artistic freedom and audaciously expanding the frontiers of our known musical universe.

Directed by Matthew Rankin · Written by Matthew Rankin

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