Real men, true musicians, discuss community, responsibility and emotion in the American south of today. Jon Konrad Wert, musician and naked blues believer, exposes his demons and shame-to-be-a-man with crude folk and genuine words.

Saturday 7th / 23:00 / Aribau Club 2 (*)
Sunday 8th / 16:30 / Aribau Club 2
(*)Presentation & Q&A with M.A. Litter

This is a film about men. Real men, not picture post-card men; those who drag around their sorrows and struggle against their demons, maintain families. This is also a story about musicians: real musicians, not rock stars or models. Musicians for whom the most important is emotional exchange, redemption, salvation, pain and exaltation. The Folk Singer focuses on one particular singer: Jon Konrad Wert, alias Possessed By Paul James, a barefaced blues musician who records for the Swiss label Voodoo Rhythm. M. A. Littler follows Wert in his daily life, while the latter unearths his ghosts and bares his manly sorrows with raw folk and genuine words. Together with his colleagues in today's southern USA, Wert discusses everything that matters: community, responsibility, demonstrating emotions, financial stability, healing wounds... Littler sticks his nose so deep into Wert's life that as spectators, we even feel uncomfortable when he cries or gets drunk, embarrassed for having pried. This is not a documentary about a label and a style of music: it's a brilliant portrayal of a man and his scars, and this man's relationship to the songs that sustain him. A moving piece.  

M. A. LITTLER is a rock'n'roll fanatic who also directs indie thrillers, such as the acclaimed Road to Nod (2007) or the documentary about The Dead Brothers band, Death is Not the End (2005).