Crossroads--Three Jazz Pianists

The scouts

It's a straightforward doc about three jazz guys talking shop—exactly the kind of sensible, well-behaved programming that makes Felix's skin crawl; there's no formal rupture here, no subversive angle, just respectful festival documentation doing what it's supposed to do.

Duckworth's film sits comfortably in the lineage of Criterion-era music documentaries, letting three distinct pianists articulate their aesthetics through performance and conversation with the kind of unhurried formal grace that rewards close attention—this is curation as listening.

The real work happens in the editing between their hands on the keys and their faces in dialogue: Duckworth lets the camera hold on the moment where a pianist's explanation clicks into the physical gesture, collapsing theory and technique into a single image that does the whole film's thinking for it.