Screening Date: Fri. Nov. 15, 2024
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: The Main Cinema
Cost: $15
Run Time/Year/Country: 90min, 2006, USA
Director: Al X Gav

Featuring a post screening Q&A with producer Chris Strouth

Co-presented by Pryes Brewing Company, Moxy Minneapolis Uptown, Transmission, Racket MN

In September of 1979, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosted the first ever “New-No-Now-Wave Festival”, featuring music by The Fleshtones, The Suicide Commandos, The Monochrome Set, Tuxedomoon, The Suburbs, Dark Day, James Chance and the Contortions, Judy Nylon and a host of others – including rare footage of DEVO performing under the name ‘Dove’.

This is a concert film of New Wave in it’s infancy, before MTV. Stylish, yet raw, this captures the transition from No Wave to New Wave, the moment before it all exploded. The footage was lost in a morass of girlfriend’s closets for 24 years, now lovingly restored to its vivid black and white glory.