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Title: FIRST REELS INTERVIEW: Saul Metzstein, The Piper

Reference number: 8539

Date: 1993

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Description: Raw interview footage with director Saul Metzstein, concerning his short film THE PIPER, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television First Reels scheme.T

Note: The film discussed in the interview is not currently preserved by the National Library of Scotland Moving IMage Archive (correct at February 2021)

Shotlist: Raw interview footage with director Saul Metzstein, concerning his short film THE PIPER, made under the Scottish Film Council and Scottish Television First Reels scheme.

Discusses:- The film is about a bagpiper who plays under the bridge of the M8 motorway in the centre of Glasgow, the underneath of which is a very unusual and interesting space. Mixture of 'old Scottish' and urban Glasgow - a naturally surreal mix between the two things. The film is on 16mm on black and white with a bit of colour and about 7 minutes long. As simple a film as possible, one character, one location. Only problem was getting the M8 empty, so they filmed very early in the morning. Isolation of the piper, makes it all the more alien and unusual. Bagpipes are a beautiful instrument, but the perfect anti-social instrument. When he starts playing you only hear the noise of cars! Some technical problems. It's also about architecture, an interesting area under the motorway with incredible scale - 'cathedral-like'