Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leths first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch. The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through Kings Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- thats Leths and Johns principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powells famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- thats what it looked like, and thats how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there.