Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes

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Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes

2020

1h 38m

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Using snippets of recordings from the composer herself and interviews with her peers, Caroline Catz builds and re-enacts a picture of Delia Derbyshire’s life and career.

Rachel Cooke

New Statesman

05/19/2021

Above all, I thought it was so clever, the way that Catz's film mirrors aspects of its homespun, meagerly funded subject.

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Carol Midgley

The Times (UK)

05/17/2021

3/5

However, in tone you felt it was a tribute that Derbyshire, whose tapes were discovered in cereal boxes in 2001, shortly after her death, would have enjoyed. Like her, it was unconventional.

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Rebecca Nicholson

Guardian

05/17/2021

4/5

This is a wonderfully inventive piece of storytelling that celebrates the strange brilliance of a mysterious pioneer of electronic music.

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Paul Kirkley

Radio Times

05/17/2021

4/5

Katz's film beautifully captures this lost analogue world of sine wave oscillators and magnetic tape, and the delightfully archaic nature by which the Workshop's technicians created the sounds of the future.

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Oscar Goff

Boston Hassle

03/26/2021

The result is often disorienting ... but also mesmerizing.

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Using snippets of recordings from the composer herself and interviews with her peers, Caroline Catz builds and re-enacts a picture of Delia Derbyshire’s life and career.

Director: Caroline Catz
Screenwriter: Caroline Catz
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 38m