Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes

2020

1h 38m

Documentary

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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.

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Rachel Cooke

New Statesman

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

May 19, 2021

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Carol Midgley

Times (UK)

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.

Rated: 3/5

May 17, 2021

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Rebecca Nicholson

Guardian

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

Rated: 4/5

May 17, 2021

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Paul Kirkley

Radio Times

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.

Rated: 4/5

May 17, 2021

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Oscar Goff

Boston Hassle

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

Mar 26, 2021

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Rachel Reeves

Consequence

The expansive and influential impact Delia Derbyshire has had on the world of electronic music cannot be undersold; and yet somehow, Caroline Catz's clearly passionate visual cinematic art installation does.

Rated: C

Mar 22, 2021

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Synopsis

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