Accordions Rising

A film by Roberta Cantow of Buffalo Rose Productions

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Accordions Rising is a documentary feature film about the resurgence of interest in accordion music over the last 30-40 years. Though many continue to see the accordion as the stodgy instrument of a bygone era – and accordion jokes abound — it is time to set the record straight!

“Accordions Rising is the most exhaustive and fair representation of the accordion in all its facets—popular, ethnic, jazz, contemporary classical, avant garde– I have encountered thus far in film. Thank you for this lovely exposé. It covered all the bases of the accordion’s strange and wonderful world and truly needed to be done.”

Robert Young McMahan, DMA /composer and contemporary classical accordionist / Prof. of Music Theory, Composition, and Accordion, The College of New Jersey / Officer of the American Accordionists’ Association and Chair of its Composers Commissioning Committee

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FIlmmaker Statement

I have often been drawn to the misunderstood.  The accordion turned out to be no exception. Like many others, I grew up with an attitude embedded in the culture regarding the accordion as a kind of low-brow instrument, corny and old-fashioned.

But then, I learned otherwise!  I came to understand this attitude was overshadowing the truth: the accordion is actually an incredibly versatile instrument. The possibilities for invention and originality are endless and border on the sublime. It turns out that the accordion and those who play them are everywhere. They’re on the loose, alive and thriving.  Though filmed mostly in New York City, depicting the NY cultural scene, Accordions Rising reflects something of the landscape of our very own America, our very own culture and our very own present.

The more in love with accordions and accordion music I became, the more determined I was to celebrate the talents of those who play and compose for them. I am so pleased to have encountered the feast of artists who appear in the film. Hats off to them for so eloquently setting the record straight.

–Roberta Cantow

The Filmmaker

Roberta Cantow, FilmmakerRoberta Cantow was recognized with her first grant from The American Film Institute while still a graduate film student at NYU. Through the years, The New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and others provided grants for the completion of 4 film works. She received a NY Area Emmy for her film, Clotheslines, about the symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women’s lives. Her films and additional videos have garnered several Best of Category Citations in film festivals around the country as well as an Award of Excellence for Dreamtime, in 2008 and an Award of Merit for Not a Still Life, both in the document-ary category, from the Accolade Competition. Her work has been exhibited in many of the venues for independents, including a presentation in the Cineprobe Series of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her four 16mm films were selected for archival preservation by the Donnell Media Center, New York City, in 2001. All of her work will be housed in the Sophia Smith Women’s History Collection of Smith College (in perpetuity).

Featured Artists

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Alex Carozza

Alex Carozza in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Bob Goldberg

Bob Goldberg in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Bruce Sunpie Barnes

Bruce Sunpie Barnes in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Cheryl Lindley

Cheryl Lindley in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Daniel Goode

Daniel Goode in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Frank Petrilli

Frank Petrelli in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Guy Klucevsek

Guy Klucevsek in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Joshua Camp

Josh Camp in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Lou Fanucchi

Lou Fanucchi in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Marni Rice

Marni Rice in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Matthew Fass

Matthew Fass in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Micki Goodman

Mikki Goodman in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Nicole Renaud

Nicole Renaud in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Peter Stan

Peter Stan in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Phillip Gould

Philip Gould in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Rachel Swaner

Rachel Swaner in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Rachelle Garniez

Rachelle Garniez in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Stephen Pellegrino

Stephen Pellegrino in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Walter Kuehr

Walter Kuehr in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Will Holshouser

Will Holshouser in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Dr. William Schimmel

William Schimmel in the Accordions Rising documentary film

Appearances

Raya Brass Band
Slavic Soul Party
Main Squeeze Orchestra
Last of the International Playboys
One Ring Zero
Will Holshouser Trio
The Flexible Orchesrta
The Zydepunks
Debo Band
Hot Pstromi
Gypsy Groove
Angels and Accordions
 

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Contact Information

Roberta Cantow
rccantow@gmail.com

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