CHEZ TOIT: OUT LOUD! #2

In collaboration with vzw Marcel

In June we rock the roof. With OUT LOUD! we present a free programme of eight music movies on our roof terrace, from rockumentaries and concert movies to works of fiction. Amongst them no less than five Belgian premières. And we top it off with OUT LOUD! Live, eight exclusive concerts on our rooftop.

***FILMS***

ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES
JONATHAN CAOUETTE
(UK, 2009, 82’, © Warp Films Ltd.)

What better celebration for its tenth anniversary, the All Tomorrow’s Parties (or ATP) music festival could have wished for than this fresh and charming documentary movie by cult director Jonathan Caouette. ATP was founded by Belle & Sebastian’s Barry Hogan in 1999 as an alternative to the large corporate festivals. The organizers, artists, and fans all stay in the same chalet-style housing complex. Every year there’s a new curator, from the likes of Autechre, Shellac, Tortoise, The Mars Volta etc. The unique festival concept is mirrored in this film’s visual approach, as it is created from footage from over 200 filmmakers, fans and musicians who’ve recorded their personal ATP experience on a multitude of formats, including Super8, camcorder, and mobile-phone. The result is an invigorating DIY bricollage.

02/06 – 22:00 – free

TAQWACORE : THE BIRTH OF PUNK ISLAM
OMAR MAHEED
(CA, 2009, 80’, © EyeSteelFilm)

When American journalist and converted Muslim Michael Muhammad Knight wrote his novel ‘The Taqwacores’ about a fictitious Muslim punk scene in the US, he didn’t realise it would start a modest cultural revolution, but today the Taqwacore movement has devotees around the world. The book struck a chord amongst disaffected Muslim American teenagers, dubbed by one commentator “The Catcher in the Rye for young Muslims”. And soon it had actually spawned a real Taqwacore movement. Made over three years, Omar Majeed’s film follows a Taqwacore band, Knight and other disciples on a US road trip and on to Pakistan for some spiritual and musical exploration. It’s an energetic reminder of the diversity of the adherents to both Islam and punk rock.

03/06 – 22:00 – free

TRIMPIN : THE SOUND OF INVENTION
PETER ESMONDE
(US, 2009, 79’, © Participant Observer)

An amusing journey through the sonic world of an eccentric creative genius. Artist/inventor/engineer/composer Trimpin shuns the hype and hyperbole of the commercial art world – yet his freewheeling sculptures and outrageous musical experiments are cherished by museums all over the planet. Filmed over two years, this cinema vérité documentary feature follows the artist/inventor as he devises a perpetual motion machine, builds a 20-meter tower of automatic electric guitars, and collaborates with the Kronos Quartet on an outrageous world premiere.

09/06 – 22:00 – free

SCOTT WALKER: 30TH CENTURY MAN
STEPHEN KIJAK
(US/UK, 2006, 95’, © Moviehouse Entertainment)

This 2006 documentary film about Scott Walker gets its title from the Scott 3 song ‘30 Century Man’. It charts Walker’s erratic but influential career in music. Besides archive footage featuring e.g. his collaboration with David Bowie, the film present sometimes surprising testimonies by a great number of admiring artists (David Bowie, Radiohead, Jarvis Cocker, Brian Eno, Damon Albarn, Marc Almond, Alison Goldfrapp, Sting, Dot Allison, Johnny Marr, Gavin Friday and many more). But the most remarkable interviewee is no doubt Scott Walker himself, the mystery man reputed for never giving an interview.

10/06 – 22:00 – free

THE MONKEES : HEAD
BOB RAFELSON
(USA, 1968, 86’, © Raybert Productions)

Despite their huge success TV pop group The Monkees were fed up with their prefab image. So they asked director Bob Rafelson and his friend Jack Nicholson (credited for a « script » that doesn’t seem to be there) to step up. The result is a far off chaotic sketch movie that, only many years later, turned out a psychedelic drugs icon. « Head » itself referring to its slang meanings of pot head, acid head and oral sex. With cameo appearances by Victor Mature, Jack Nicholson, Teri Garr, Carol Doda, Annette Funicello, Frank Zappa, Sonny Liston, Timothy Carey and Ray Nitschke.

16/06 – 22:00 – free

JOY DIVISION
GRANT GEE
(UK/USA, 2007, 93’, © Pretty Pictures)

This much acclaimed film documents the music scene in Manchester and how it led to the formation of the band in 1976, after four young Mancunians attended a gig by the Sex Pistols. Using interviews with band members, other musicians, the late Tony Wilson and Ian Curtis’ Belgian lover Annik Honoré, the movie draws a very complete portrait. Including painfully honest comments on the circumstances of lead singer Ian Curtis’ suicide in 1980. The documentary is directed by Grant Gee, who is well known for the films he made about Radiohead and Oasis.

17/06 – 22:00 – free

OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL
JULIEN TEMPLE
(UK, 2009, 104’, © HanWay Films)

Cult director Julien Temple has made many movies about music (The Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer, Glastonbury), but this beautiful and engaging documentary on R&B pubrockers Dr Feelgood is generally hailed as his best so far. Dr Feelgood had its heyday in the mid-70s pub-rock era that foreshadowed punk. Amongst its first audiences were Johnny Rotten, Joe Strummer and… Diana Spencer. Besides a tribute to the band and its two key figures, charismatic lead singer Lee Brilleaux and philosophical lead guitar Wilko Johnson, the movie draws a resonant psychogeography of their home base Canvey Island in Essex. It’s no coincidence that they claimed themselves that their raunchy brand of British R&B could only have come from what they called the “Thames delta”.

23/06 – 22:00 – free

NEIL YOUNG TRUNK SHOW
JONATHAN DEMME
(NL/US/CA, 2009, 82’, © A-Film)

For his second concert movie on Neil Young, director Jonathan Demme professes an untethered film style that is just right for Neil Young’s musical wanderings. The director who made the great Talking Heads concert film ‘Stop Making Sense’ doesn’t attempt a straightforward staging of Young’s show. Demme, who mans a camera himself, sometimes drifts off stage during songs. Performances aren’t always married to the soundtrack. Cameras pop up unexpectedly – inside the open lid of a piano, behind the band, in the stage wings, inside and to the back of a thrashing mosh pit. The film’s subtitle ‘Scenes from a concert’ is therefore spot on. ‘Neil Young Trunk Show’ is an impressionistic work that is perfectly in tune with its subject’s hallucinatory music.

24/06 – 22:00 – free

***OUT LOUD! LIVE – CONCERTS***

WHITE HINTERLAND (US)
(Experimental/avant-pop)

Whether one calls it contemporary R&B-influenced ambient glitch-pop or hypnotic digital chamber-pop, White Hinterland are a tough band to pin down. In just four years and a bare handful of releases, the duo has already tinkered with many different styles, from the smooth jazz indie-noir and bare stripped post-country of their beginnings to the both catchy and experimental electronic sounds of today. The one thing that stays is singer Casey Dienel’s wonderful, eerie and acrobatic voice.

04/06 – 22:00 – free

TV BUDDHAS (IL/DE) & HARLEM (US) + DJ STETHOSCOPE STEWARDS (BE)
In the context of  SOUNDBITS, Monthly Sounds of the Underground
(Psychedelic/rock)

Originally from Israel, the now Berlin based duo, and by now a threesome, TV Buddhas has the habit of throwing all things loud in the blender. From sixties psychedelics and seventies hardrock to contemporary noise and big city blues. The result is an emotionally quite overpowering live show, furious, loud and high-paced. Texas trio Harlem likes it loud and fast too. Their straightforward, uncomplicated rock’n’roll is dashed up with loads of gusto. 1, 2, 3, 4 Hey ho, let’s go.

In collaboration with  Vk* Concerts

05/06 – 20:30 – free

MARY & ME
(pop)

The band around singer Elke Andreas B. and Pieter-Jan De Waele offers a wide range of musical cards – sweet, yet with an undertone that is haunted, possessed. They make catchy pop songs that initially appear naive and fragile, yet are dark and seductive at the same time. Their music is precise: each note a raindrop of calculation. In short: a sea of disordered pop.

11/06 – 22:00 – free

OBLIQ (SE)
(pop)

Swedish band Obliq charms audiences worldwide with its vulnerable, gentle electronic pop. Despite being a young band, they received much critical acclaim in the UK for their debut album ‘Antenna’. In Japan one of their songs even made it to the soundtrack of a publicity campaign for clothing company Tomorrowland.

12/06 – 22:00 – free

TAPE TUM (BE)
(elektronica)

Soothing soundscapes and acoustic sensitivities injected with smart beats, airy jazz touches and elegant bleeps are the elements that make up the eclectic mixture of Tape Tum’s vintage art-pop. Their debut album ‘The Night We Called It A Day’ is a collection of nine graceful, hypnotic–textured compositions with ample experimental tendencies. Balancing masterfully between the analogue and digital domain, the brother pair of Benjamin and Lieven Dousselaere demonstrates an impressive songcrafting aptitude, enhanced with continental ethics and an evident love for Grizzly Bear, the Beach Boys and Sparklehorse.

18/06 – 22:00 – free

SOLANGE LA FRANGE (CH)
(electro-clash)

A Swiss revelation, this slightly of their rocker threesome from Vevey. Freshly out of Art School, Julie and Tristan hooked us as the illustrious DJ duo Foxy Boop and the Man with a Sweet Case. Nowadays they are called Solange La Frange, there’s three of them and they tour as much as a live band than as a DJ-act. Live they deliver raunchy electro clash punk laced with Julie’s vocals, Tristan’s machines and Luca’s bass playing. Their wild performances are backed up with specially created visuals by befriended fashion designers and artists.

19/06 – 22 :00 – free

NELE NEEDS A HOLIDAY
(pop)

Nele Needs A Holiday. You wouldn’t say. Listening to her merry songs about too much cleavage and too much chardonnay, you’d think she’s always on a holiday. Those Bridget Jones-like lyrics are served up with Lolita-like dash. Rather then being girls, they play girls. A bit naughty, a bit empty-headed, a bit impulsive, a bit chaotic. A chaos that finds its musical counterpart in the improvisations they allow for in their lo-fi neo-country pop.

25/06 – 22:00 – free

GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (BE)
(garagerock)

Gentlemen of Verona is a Belgian based Indie-Garageband with a very flamboyant front lady, very loud guitars and very bashing drums. Their sound contains echoes of the likes of Pj Harvey, The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Hole etc… References that make clear they rank amidst Flanders wildest rockers.

26/06 – 22:00 – free

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This weekend will be a must for fans of Japanese exploitation pics from the seventies with, amongst others,  a Female Convict Scorpion triple bill,  Sex & Fury and Girl Boss Guerilla, all on vintage 35 mm!

Don’t forget to arrive in time for the opening film (AIR DOLL) in Cinema Nova. Doors are open at 6PM, the film starts at 7PM. In the meantime you are invited to a welcome’s drink at the Nova Bar.

After this film Jess Franco wil in person introduce his nunsploitation classic LOVE LETTERS OF A PORTUGESE NUN. Attention: because the 35mm print that was promised to us has one reel missing, we unfortunately have to organize a digital projection (English dub) of the film. Our apologies..

In ten days the Offscreen Film Festival will open its doors. In the meantime, you can warm up by joining us for a B-to-Z double bill at the Cinematek this Friday!

Family is not always the cornerstone of society nor the nest of comfort we wish it were. Sometimes, the family institution breeds doom and terror, like in the two films selected for this month’s “B-to-Z”. Two films that you are free to interpret as you wish.

The Hills Have Eyes is a horror classic by Wes Craven (Scream, A Nightmare on Elm Street). The Carters are an all-American family on a road trip through the Nevada desert in their trailer. They fall into the clutches of another, less respectable family of inbred degenerates and cannibals.

Family dysfunction seems to be a recurring theme amongst Japanese filmmakers. Sogo Ishii (Angel Dust, Gojoe), the enfant terrible of punk-influenced cinema, was a notable influence on the Shiny Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike generation. His film The Crazy Family was a precursor for Visitor Q. His film is not only an attack on the hypocrisy of a certain Japanese middle class, but also and above all a black comedy of flamboyant, sadistic proportions.

19:00
The Hills Have Eyes
Wes Craven, USA, 1977, 89’, 35mm

21:00
The Crazy Family (Gyakufunsha kazoku)
Sogo Ishii, Japan, 1984, 106’, 35mm