Rewind & Play


Rewind & Play is a 2022 French-German documentary film essay by Alain Gomis.

Summary

Featuring outtakes from a 1969 interview for French television with Thelonious Monk at the end of his European tour given questions by French pianist Henri Renaud. The subtitle is named after one of the questions Renaud gave to Monk was deemed "derogatory" by Bernard Lion. It also featured performances by Monk on solo piano on the night of the interview.

Production

Gomis received the footage from the National Audiovisual Institute while researching for a fictional film about Monk.