INSTRUMENT2

22 May 5.30pm, Free USA, 1998, 115 minutes B&W, Sound, Video 'Far from a traditional documentary, Instrument is a musical document and portrait of musicians at work made collaboratively between filmmaker Jem Cohen and the Washington DC band. The project covers the ten year period from the band's inception in 1987.' "Piecing it together over five years, I thought of bringing dub to documentary, unadulterated real-time performances, abstract, rough-hewn Super-8 collages and archival artifacts that would collide and conjoin in a way that honestly represented the musical experience." - J.C.

No Age, New York

NO AGE, NEW YORK
programme cancelled
UK/USA, 1993, 50 minutes
Colour, Sound, Video

'This rough-guide to the New York scene of the 1980's is a whirlwind tour of the city's film and video 'underground' that doubles up as a walk-on-the-wild-side of the modern imagination. Mixing interviews with underground alumni Beth B, Nick Zedd, Henry Rollins, Lydia Lunch and Richard Kern alongside clips of their controversial, confrontational works. No Age... junks standard documentary structure in favour of a scattershot fanzine-type approach that vividly captures the scene of the period and the energy and attitude behind it.' - Steven Bode

Also

THE CRAMPS - LIVE AT NAPA STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL

During a 1978 tour, psychobilly punk band The Cramps played one of their strangest gigs when they performed inside Napa State Mental Hospital - and someone filmed it happening! The footage is grainy, black and white, and chaotic, but as they launch into a high-energy version of Mystery Plane, the film becomes a high point of punk and rock 'n' roll. Unmissable.

After a delay in starting The Third Ear we are now presenting several screenings in the new gallery at Blenheim Walk (next to reception).

Next Screening Tuesday 22 May at 5.00pm

INSTRUMENT - a film by Jem Cohen + THE YEAR PUNK BROKE by Thurston Moore


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