# Where to watch A Necessary Music (2009) in the UK

> A Necessary Music (2009) is not currently listed on any UK streaming, rental, or purchase service. Last verified on 12 May 2026 by ScreenSearch.

**Type:** Film  
**Year:** 2009  
**Runtime:** 30 minutes  
**Region:** United Kingdom (GB)  
**Last verified:** 12 May 2026 (2026-05-12T09:40:46.017Z)  

## Synopsis

A collaboration between artist Beatrice Gibson and composer Alex Waterman, A Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it.Treating the medium of film as both a musical proposition and a proposal for collective production, A Necessary Music employs the resident of New York’s Roosevelt Island as its authors and actors, gathering together texts written by them and using them to construct a script for the film. Framed by a fictional narration taken from Adolfo Bioy Casares’ 1941 science fiction novel ‘The invention of Morel’, the film self-consciously dissolves from attempted realism to imagined narrative; what begins as a enthnographic study becomes instead an imagined fiction and an investigation into the mechanics of representation itself.

## Streaming options in the United Kingdom

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**Where can I watch A Necessary Music in the UK?**

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## Sources

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