Contemporary Color

Director

Bill Ross & Turner Ross

Year

2016

Featuring

David Byrne, St. Vincent, Nelly Furtado,
Lucius, Devonté Hynes, Zola Jesus,
Ad-Rock, Money Mark, tUnE-yArDs,
How to Dress Well, Nico Muhly, Ira Glass

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Conceived by David Byrne, Contemporary Color is an impressionistic concert film that celebrates the little-known world of high school color guard. Ten of the country’s elite color guard teams – the flag-flipping, sequin-studded creme de la creme of the ‘sport of the arts’ – sync steps with musical luminaries for a bacchanalia of beats, sabre-spinning, and glitter cannons.

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Featuring

**WINNER – Cinema Eye Honors 2024**
Outstanding Nonfiction Feature

**WINNER – Cinema Eye Honors 2024**
Outstanding Original Score

**WINNER – Cinema Eye Honors 2024**
Outstanding Sound Design

**NOMINEE — 5 Cinema Eye Honors 2024**

 **TOP 5 DOCS OF 2023 — National Board of Review**

**WINNER — Cinema Audio Society Awards 2024**

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Picture – Documentary

**WINNER — Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards 2024**
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Documentary

**NOMINEE 2 Critics Choice Documentary Awards 2023**

**NOMINEE — Hollywood Professional Association 2023**
Outstanding Sound – Documentary

“A brilliant show, a series of mesmerizing spectacles brought to life.”
– Eric Kohn, Indiewire
“A gift to audiences everywhere, a spectacular kinetic pinwheel of a movie that whisks us away from big issues to celebrate an exceptional creative collaboration.”
– Peter Debruge, Variety
“One of the few rockumentaries since Stop Making Sense to tap the cinematic potential of sound and vision in a way that feels genuinely collaborative and borderline transcendental.”
– David Fear, Rolling Stone
“A brilliant show, a series of mesmerizing spectacles brought to life.”
– Eric Kohn, Indiewire
“A gift to audiences everywhere, a spectacular kinetic pinwheel of a movie that whisks us away from big issues to celebrate an exceptional creative collaboration.”
– Peter Debruge, Variety
“One of the few rockumentaries since Stop Making Sense to tap the cinematic potential of sound and vision in a way that feels genuinely collaborative and borderline transcendental.”
– David Fear, Rolling Stone

**WINNER** Tribeca Film Festival 

Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature 

Best Editing in a Documentary Feature 

 

**WINNER** Cinema Eye Honors Awards 

Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score

 

Cinema Eye Honors Awards Nominee 

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography 

 

Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards Nominee 

Best Music Documentary

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