In this 2015 documentary, DONT LOOK BACK director D. A. Pennebaker and collaborators Jim Desmond, Nick Doob, and Chris Hegedus look back at Pennebaker’s first cinematic steps, and how his choice of subjects and filmmaking style grew out of his interest in music and performance.
Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1953 • United States
Shot in 1953, though not completed until 1957, Daybreak Express was the first film D. A. Pennebaker made, a mad rush of images of New York City captured from a train and edited to the rhythm of Duke Ellington's song of the same name. A jazz afi...
