Screening of “All Tomorrow’s Parties”

Screening of “All Tomorrow’s Parties”

All Tomorrow’s Parties

Wed 16 May 2012, 8.30 pm
ATK

From The Onion Cellar:
The Onion Cellar return to ATK with ATP, a documentary about the cult UK music festival, All Tomorrow’s Parties.

Named after a song by the legendary Velvet Underground (featuring Nico), All Tomorrow’s Parties (ATP) is an annual British non-corporate music festival, first held in 1999 in Camber Sands, England. Every year since, curators (often influential bands in the alternative scene) would be invited to handpick stellar line-ups of artists ranging across the more leftfield genres of music: noise rock, post-rock, avant-garde, psychedelic folk, underground hip hop etc. As founder Barry Hogan simply put, “ATP is like an excellent mix tape”.

Described as a “post-punk DIY bricolage”, ATP was made using footage generated by the fans and musicians attending the events themselves, on a multitude of formats including Super8, camcorder and mobile phone.  Directed by Jonathan Caouette and “All Tomorrow’s People” (a term used to describe everyone who has contributed footage), cinematographed by La Blogothèque’s Vincent Moon (among others), edited by Nick Fenton (Heima’s editor), The film manages to faithfully portray all that makes ATP ATP – raw, rebellious, and ‘alternative’ in the truest sense of the word.

Rather than conventional concert footage, what we get is insights into the motivation and vibe of the festival. Why people organise such events, why people attend, why people perform, all starts to make perfect sense through the film’s kaleidoscopic lens. Performances from Belle and Sebastian, Sonic Youth, Battles, the Boredoms, Portishead, Mogwai, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Gossip, Iggy and the Stooges, Patti Smith (and much more) get equal billing among such random delights as fans climbing over cottages, Sun Ra explaining how he feels about music and, of course, the destination itself.

Languages: English Language, no subtitles

Free Entry.

An excerpt from the film:

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