In "Das Sein und das Nichts" ("Being and Nothingness"), set to Mr. Furrer's "Ein Lied, das Über das Ende des Liedes Hinaus ein Anderes Ende Finden Wollte" ("A Song That Aimed to Find Another Ending Beyond the End of the Song"), Ms. Minck shows Mr. Furrer as a conductor, set against a scrolling musical score.
The best moment was when the orchestra was here: one could stand behind the musicians and see the conductor silhouetted against the film, with the musicians playing, the bodies moving, the audience milling around and the muffled vibration of the passing trains.
But rather than spend time weighing up the relative attractions of conductor Sir Simon Rattle against the tall ships, which were watched by a million people, Redmond is thinking about 2009 and far beyond.
The philosophy professor, who resigned from Birkbeck College to set up the New College of the Humanities, which plans to charge fees of £18,000 a year, said his institution had become a lightning conductor for anger against education cuts and that he had become a target for "heckling, abuse and criticism".
That unity was cracking into violence as she peered, against the conductor's orders, out the window as tanks rolled past in the dry, unpicked cornfields.
The local's general chairman, Xavier D. Williams, said the charges against the conductor were premature because the formal investigation was not yet complete.
As the film concludes with his upraised hand, conductor's fingers unfurling against a blue sky, you do feel that you have witnessed a small victory of wisdom over indifference and ennui.
When the orchestra took to the stage, prior to Fischer's entrance, and got into formation for the first number, Schubert's "Die Zauberharfe" overture, it was clear that something was up: pressed up against the conductor's podium were four violinists and a woodwind trio, with a fourth wind player, a bassoonist, seated in the front row just beside it.
He later appeared in the big-budget disaster film The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and portrayed a Depression-era train conductor with a vendetta against hoboes in Emperor of the North Pole (1973; also released as Emperor of the North), his fifth and final collaboration with director Robert Aldrich.
