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The Third Annual hi/lo Film Festival
November 12-14, 1999
Victoria Theatre - San Francisco, USA
Tix are now availabe at Open Mind Music (Oak @ Divis), Lost Weekend Video (Valencia @ 21st) and at Ticketweb.com.
More info: (415) 267-0642
Sunday November 14 8pm
InstrumentJem Cohen/Fugazi * Chicago/DC
16mm, Super 8, digital video, hi8 video, beta sp, 115 minutes
Just as they've defied mainstream absorption and belied easy aesthetic categorization, the seminal band Fugazi have made a wholly original film. Shot on numerous formats from super 8 to 16mm--with lots of video in between--it took 10 years to make. For fans of the band the films delivers rare concert footage of early gigs at Washington D.C. rec centers, parks and even a local jail. For those more plugged into the group's d.i.y. philosophy than their music there are revealing interviews with the cult heroes Ian McKaye, Guy Piccioto, Joe Lally and Brenden Canty.
But Jem Cohen, the film's chief architect and lifelong friend of the band's has forged something much greater than a concert film or an underground rockumentary. He's depicted a decades' artistic and political evolution in 115 minutes. Great artists transcend a single style and, with the release of Instrument, Fugazi demonstrates that great artists can transcend mediums of expression as well.
hi/lo Film Festival
--high concept/low budget films for the adventurous and disenchanted
because $40 million can kill a good idea