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A Tempo Real
Francisco Willumsen de la Fuente - Chile – 2008 – 54’
In the El Guanaco Chilean farmhouse, two musicians appear -El Dúo Code- to prove that music is everywhere. Making the countryside sound, the tools, constructing an epic that booms like the Earth itself.
Saturday 6 /20:45/ Auditori Blanquerna
A propósito de Rodríguez. Un documental protagonizado por The New Raemon
Sergi A. Minguell - Spain – 2010 – 87’
With a passion for depression, The New Ramón, hairy ex-leader of the epic and dark Madee is still waxing lyrical on solitude, oppression and “not being okay”. In this extensive, monochromatic and intimate documentary, we see the artist from within, suffering his art, speaking of everyday misery, seeking solace through song.
ACCION! The Story of La Fura dels Baus
Christoph Goldmann, Leif Karpe - Germany, Spain – 2010 – 82’
Or how nine small town Catalans form an extreme theatre company and garner international fame. A fascinating saga– and not one devoid of desertions or dissentions - seen through foreign eyes that sublimate images as explosive as their art.
Agustí Fernàndez - Los Dedos Huéspedes
Lucas Caraba - Spain – 2011 – 45’
More interview than documentary, the pianist explains his method in a masterclass that unravels into a relaxed conversation. Free of archaeology or biographies: this is just Fernández, revealing himself through his pieces and the musicians that accompany him.
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
Paul Crowder , Murray Lerner - United Kingdom, United States – 2007 – 120’
They started out as sharp mods, crazy for Motown, and ended up being the most powerful, energetic and noisy SuperRock band on the planet. Their story is finally told as it should be, from “My Generation” until today. At breakneck volume.
Barcelona era una fiesta (Underground 1970-1983)
Morrosko Vila-San-Juan - Spain – 2010 – 56’
At last, the definitive explanation of Barcelona’s counter-culture, from its cradle (Canet, Jornadas Libertarias) to its utopian height of light and colour (Star, Los Comix, Zeleste) to the final elbow by the proto-punks (La Trapera). As told by its witnesses: Nazario, Pepe Ribas, Pau Riba, Mariscal, Onliyú, Gallardo, Ramón de España and more.
Benda Bilili!
Renaud Barret, Florent de la Tullaye - Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, France – 2010 – 85’
The remarkable story of a disabled Congolese musical group, rejecting any condescending cliché to express its fight against poverty and desperation. A film about survival and affirmation of life, which finally yields a happy ending.
Better Than Something: Jay Reatard
Alex Hammond, Ian Markiewicz - United States – 2011 – 90’
A crude celebration of the prolific garage rocker from Memphis, irate punk-rocker and underground artist elevated to global phenomenon and filmed just months before his death. Without sentimentalism, friends and family members divulge his ambition, misery and greatest pieces.
Blaze Foley: Duct Tape Messiah
Kevin Triplett - United States – 2011 – 60’
The Texan troubadour of country protest songs, whose art mattered less than his story. True master in the art of self-sabotage, Foley is judged in an unusual film that doesn’t pull any punches. A career steeped in setbacks and a sh*t-ton of booze, with only one person to blame: himself.
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight
Murray Lerner - United States – 2002 – 118’
The Apocalypse Now-like chaos of the Isle of Wight 1970 is the rugged landscape before which the great, black guitar-hero burns in his concert on August 31st, at 2am. From “God Save the Queen” to “Purple Haze” in 118 unforgettable minutes of acid rock engulfed in flames.
London's Backstage All-Night Marathon: From London to Isle of Wight
Night of 31st to 1st, at 01.45h at Aribau Club1
Get your tickets here
Breaking Rocks
Alan Miles - United Kingdom – 2009 – 75’
Back comes the left-winged bard, but this time he’s not in the limelight. Breaking Rocks tells the tale of Bragg’s independent initiative - Jail Guitar Doors – to take instruments into prisons and organize guitar workshops. Procedure, passion, heavyweight allies (Mick Jones, of course) and a reo-rock group that emerges and travels the free world. Stay Free, more than ever before.
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Nicola Roberts - United Kingdom – 2010 – 60’
Eno’s extreme intelligence is disconcerting. In this sober BBC documentary we see the “Intellectual guru of rock” in his natural habitat (the studio), but also resting on his laurels arguing about science, history or cybernetics with Richard Dawkings or Malcom Gladwell. A majestic conversation in tandem with an unforgettable glance into the mental processes of his intellect.
Brötzmann
René Jeuckens, Thomas Mau, Grischa Windus - Germany – 2011 – 80’
Free of archive material but full of evocation and memory, this film paints a portrait of the German saxophonist, painter and master of European free jazz, highlighting his pragmatism and spirituality. But above all, his constant and noble solitude.
Bury The Hatchet
Aaron Walker - United States – 2010 – 86’
The Treme series, in the flesh. The New Orleans Indians, clubs filled with black men who dress as Native Americans for Mardi Gras, battling hurricanes and the police. The story of a tradition upheld, proud in the face of oppression.
Carnival!
Don Letts - United Kingdom – 2009 – 48’
Don Letts, the director-photographer-DJ and official black man of punk 77, celebrates and defends the famous Notting Hill Gate carnival. Its West Indian origins in 1959, its ruptures (youth-maturity, reggae vs. calypso) and its commercialization, its battles and victories. The story of the UK’s most authentic cultural barometer hits our screens with the best sound systems.
Color Me Obsessed, a film about The Replacements
Gorman Bechard - United States – 2011 – 123’
The humorous, tragic saga of this dysfunctional cult ‘80s band could only be told in a different sort of documentary. Dynamic and journalistic with neither music, nor original footage (hardly even a photo of the band! Not even the band!). The result is pure oral picaresque punk.
Comin' Home
Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker - United States – 1991 – 34’
A snapshot of Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company performing at the Generation Club at a memorial for Martin Luther King, recording their first major album, “Cheap Thrills” and at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival performing their legendary “Ball and Chain.”
Monday 1 / 19:30 / Filmoteca de Catalunya
Saturday 6 / 22:00 / Filmoteca de Catalunya
Coming Back For More
Willem Alkema - Netherlands – 2010 – 74’
Half detective film, half biography of an artist, this is the search and seizure of Sly Stone, one of the most talented soulmen of the 60’s and 70’s. It’s strange: at the hand and record collection of two dedicated brothers we knock on the door of an artist who’s more misanthropic than Pynchon. The past is glorious (and revealed in great detail); the present is somewhat sad. What happened, Sly?
Cracked Actor: David Bowie
Alan Yentob - United Kingdom – 1974 – 54’
The famous film about the musician’s stint in Los Angeles in 1974. An unstable, skeletal and paranoid Bowie in the full throes of cocaine addiction, talks about anxiety, cut-ups, rock stardom and alter egos while his hits keep on hitting the jackpot. Unsettling.
Dave Brubeck - In His Own Sweet Way
Bruce Ricker - United States – 2010 – 91’
Genius, pioneer, performer of “Take five” and all in all, a great guy. An educational and elegant film with a classic Hollywood air, Clint Eastwood’s sponsorship and the BBC signature that fits the Californian jazzman that transcended Cool… like a glove.
