In "Step Across the Border" Fred Frith states that Art, for him, is not a question of originality but of freeing oneself: "Knowing you're being filmed. Not knowing. Knowing, as you watch the screen, that you knew you were being filmed. Knowing that you didn't know. The subtle degrees of self-consciousness." This is the long awaited reissue of the excellently made (and award-winning) film about and featuring Fred - at work, rest and in interview mode - moving through Japan, Italy, France, Germany, England, Switzerland and America, alone and in the musical company of Iva Bittova, Tom Cora, Joey Barron, Rene Lussier, Haco, Zeena Parkins, Bob Ostertag, John Zorn, Art Lindsay, Tim Hodgkinson and others. Part documentary, part visual meditation with soundtrack, this edition comes with a great deal of extra footage. Pretty indispensable. Film 1 hour 23. Plus Bonus tracks, 30 mins. French, German, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish subtitles.