Burning Bridges - The Story of Paul Burwell | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Documentary following the life and achievements of the avant garde musician and artist Paul Burwell until his tragic dea | dG1fV1FfcXJqbXFzU2M

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00:00All I knew was this ice body on a sidewalk somewhere in front of a park because it's

00:25only my mind, so could you fill me in?

00:30He was plunging into some awful situation.

00:36Apocalypse Now, Kurtz.

00:41People perceived him as dangerous and samurai spirit, which is what he did have.

00:52His work was his life, there was no separation really between the two.

00:55He was always questioning the conventions of what one thought one had to do.

01:02We were, both of us, deeply interested in alchemy.

01:05You make a frame, and then the strange thing is that the world starts to conform to your

01:12frame.

01:13He knew that he was a short fuse and that he wouldn't live long.

01:17He was going very fast.

01:18It was like Fight Club, where they turned the house into this place where it kind of

01:23turned up and just people were doing stuff everywhere.

01:25I think he was really trying to create some sort of tribe.

01:34Someone who wants to create their own universe and just spirals into themselves.

01:43If you try and be the magician and the manipulator of the elements, then it's not going to go

01:49well for you.

01:50Some individuals manage to go to the edge and look over and step back.

01:57Others just don't know the edge is there really, until they've fallen over.