Film Festival 09 - All Tomorrow's Parties
All Tomorrow's Parties
UK 2009, 82m
Director: All Tomorrow's People, Jonathan Caouette
Festivals: SXSW, Edinburgh 2009
For almost a decade All Tomorrow's Parties have been occupying
weather-beaten, out-of-season holiday camps on the English coast
and turning them into a mecca for adventurously minded musicians
and audiences. The weekend-long festivals are an idealistic
endeavour with headliners such as Sonic Youth, the Dirty Three and
Mogwai given carte blanche to select the acts they want to share
the stage. In the spirit of such anarchic inclusiveness, this
documentary distillation hands the reigns over to more than 200
filmmakers, musicians and fans. Tarnation director Jonathan
Caouette is on hand to make sense of their footage, combing
coverage from several festivals to create a freeform assemblage of
magnificent strangeness that includes: Daniel Johnston's impromptu
confessional in the camp courtyard, the swampy blues of Nick Cave's
Grinderman, Japan's Boredoms pummelling a quartet of drumkits, the
breakneck assault of bass and drum duo Lightning Bolt, the Wu-Tang
Clan duelling with liquid swords, Iggy and the Stooges' sinuous raw
rock reborn, plus much much more.
