about cinema
Movie History: The Next Generation, mark cousins
Ten years ago, Irish film critic and director Mark Cousins released a 15-hour series, History of Cinema: An Odyssey, chronicling the development of cinema from its inception to the first decade of the 21st century. Now the project has a sequel dedicated to the cinema of the 2010s: new technologies, the revision of gender roles, and how this art form has changed at the end of the decade due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Kubrick, about Kubrick”, Gregory Monroe
“An Invitation to the Thought of Stanley Kubrick” compiled from audio recordings of the director’s conversations with film critic Michel Seaman (Kubrick hardly spoke to the press, but regularly made an exception for Seaman). In addition – archive footage and rare interviews filmed.
“We were kids”, Eddie Martin
A story about the fate of young people who starred in Larry Clark’s cult debut film “Kids” 30 years ago – about men united by a difficult fate and a love of skateboarding. The heroes of the tape enjoyed the glory that fell on them in different ways: Justin Pierce, the performer of one of the main roles, committed suicide a few years later, his partner in the frame, Harold Hunter, died of an overdose. 2006.
about music
“Italo Disco: The Brilliant Sound of the 80s”, Alessandro Melazzin
A painting with a self-explanatory title: A wonderful exploration of the ’80s Italian dance scene by self-taught documentarian Alessandro Melazzini, who previously captured the legacy of Jamaican ska, famed porn actress Cicciolina, and the Cistercian monastic order.
“Look at me: XXXTentacion”, Morning Folayan
Portrait of young Jacey Onfroy, who started his career as a sound cloud rapper at age 15 under the pseudonym XXXTentacion, became a world star at age 17 and was shot dead during a robbery at age 20. “Look at Me” is based on archive footage and interviews with XXXTentacion’s family and friends.
“Freaks on the Stage: The Story of Dinosaur Jr..”, Philipp Reichenheim
Former music video director Dinosaur Jr. An in-depth account of the major alt-rock heroes of the ’80s and ’90s, compiled by. Philipp Reichenheim, who managed to get uncommunicative musicians to talk and learn firsthand how it all started – and it continues (with some interruptions) to this day.
“Charlie XCX: Alone Together”, Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler
A chronicle of the covid experiments of pop star Charlie XCX, who in 2020 locked in four walls with a significant part of the planet and decided to record a new record at home, live and with the direct participation of fans. . Images provided by the singer herself were edited by music video producers Bradley Bell and Pablo Jones-Soler, who also worked with Harry Styles, Lizzo and the Pussycat Dolls.
About Miscellaneous
“Atlantis”, Yuri Ankarani
Youri Ancarani is an Italian audiovisual artist working at the intersection of feature films, documentaries and the visual arts. His new work “Atlantis” is dedicated to the life of young people from an island at the foot of the Venetian lagoon: lazy summer, motorboats, roaring music, youth will forgive everything.
“Jane Through Charlotte’s Eyes”, Charlotte Gainsburg
Docudrama is actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg’s directorial debut in which she talks to her mother, actress and singer Jane Birkin.
“Cow”, Andrea Arnold
The first documentary from director Andrea Arnold, who directed American Cutie and the second season of Big Little Lies. For the sake of the Cow, Arnold filmed the life of the black and white English cow Luma for four years – as a result, the ideological brother-in-law of Viktor Kokasovsky’s Gunda spoke about his everyday life. a pig and piglets came out.
“Mary Quant: Mini-Revolution”, Sadie Frost
A biography of designer Mary Quant, who in the 60s came up with the idea to dress young British women in miniskirts and colorful tights and shoes in flats.
Bonus: hits from past years
“B-Movie: Noise and Fury in West Berlin”, Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange and Klaus Meck
Avant-garde, clubs, drugs, slums, big rockers and crazy ravers from “Love Parade” in the video diary of British Mark Reeder, who moved to West Berlin in the late ’70s and captured the evolution of the dance scene from the next generation. wave to techno.
“PJ Harvey: A Dog Called Money”, Seamus Murphy
Cult singer PJ Harvey visits Afghanistan, Kosovo, and the United States with military photojournalist Seamus Murphy, and then records his ninth album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, at Somerset House in London (then everyone sees the process through a one-way window). could follow). ).
“Rave in Iran”, Suzanne Moyers
Probably the biggest hit of the Beat Film Festival is German Susanna Moyers’ thesis on underground parties in modern Iran, where techno (like many other things) is banned.
“Skate Kitchen”, Crystal Mozell
A teen drama about a group of Manhattan skateboarding girls that director Krystal Mosel accidentally encounters on the subway. In 2020–2021, the series “Betty” was broadcast on HBO, which continued the plot of the movie, but after the second season, the project was closed.
See the full schedule and schedule of Beat Film Festvial – 2022 at: area Festival.