MPLS Festival Film | DEVO + PRE-SHOW PERFORMANCE BY REVO
Explore the career of Devo who took their concept of "de-evolution" from a cult following to near-rock star status all while preaching urgent social commentary.
MPLS Festival Film | THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALLEE WILLIS
Songwriter / artist Allee Willis, best known for writing the "Friends" theme song, the Earth Wind & Fire mega-hit "September" and "The Color Purple" musical, began filming her life as a kid in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. She pursued creative expression at all costs while struggling with not fitting established gender and sexual norms… until she found a path to love.
MPLS Festival Film | TEACHES OF PEACHES
Artist and musician Peaches is a feminist icon leaving an indelible mark on popular culture as proven by this blend of archival gems, interviews and riveting tour footage of The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary Tour.
MPLS Festival Film | SALAD DAYS: A DECADE OF PUNK IN WASHINGTON DC (10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY DIRECTOR'S CUT) (Filmmaker Present)
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)” is a documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation’s Capital.
MPLS Festival Film | SINCE YESTERDAY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF SCOTLAND’S GIRL BANDS + DALE short film
Popstars, Post-Punks and Pioneers - a documentary platforming the story of Scotland’s defiant trailblazing Girl Bands
MPLS Festival Film | SPIDER JOHN KOERNER: BEEN HERE... DONE THAT (Filmmaker Present) + PRE-SHOW PERFORMANCE BY CHARLIE PARR
This revealing documentary shows many sides of Koerner, and his philosophy, artistic ambitions and reflections about mortality. Sometimes, his pursuits are cosmic.
MPLS Festival Film | SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT
This Sundance award winner explores a moment when jazz, colonialism, and espionage collided, constructing a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
MPLS Festival Film | OMAR AND CEDRIC: IF THIS EVER GETS WEIRD
Get an all-access pass into the masterminds behind Grammy award-winning band The Mars Volta: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala.
MPLS Festival Film | IT'S ALL GONNA BREAK
Filmmaker Stephen Chung pulls back the curtain on the community of musicians and friends centered around the trailblazing band Broken Social Scene. This stunning POV documentary features never before seen archival footage and pays tribute to the power of indie music and the artists who started out in Toronto bars before rocketing to global fame.
MPLS Festival Film | PRETTY UGLY - THE STORY OF THE LUNACHICKS
The Lunachicks, N.Y.C.'s most legendary group of '90s punk rock heroines, reflect on their hilarious crusade for equality, and are propelled towards a triumphant 20-year reunion.
MPLS Festival Film | IT WAS ALL A DREAM
Constructed from director dream hampton’s personal archive, It Was All a Dream is a visual memoir reflecting on the dawn of the golden era of hip-hop.
MPLS Festival Film | DECIBEL + IN THE DARKNESS (short film)
When a struggling singer-songwriter gets the opportunity of a lifetime to work with a tech-obsessed music producer, her art and life are put in peril as she is forced to help create the perfect AI music algorithm.
MPLS Festival Film | ZENITHAL
Watch Zenithal for the action, sex, violence, and socio-political commentary, the random music number, or watch it for the love, romance, bromance, female empowerment, and revenge.
MPLS Festival Film | M-80 (Filmmakers Present)
the first ever “New-No-Now-Wave Festival” from 1979, the definitive moment of no wave, that launched the heydey of Minneapolis music!
MPLS Festival Film | SOMETHING BETTER CHANGE (FILMMAKER Present)
Joey “Shithead” Keithley of DOA, Canada’s most iconic punk is now an elected politician in Vancouver, Burnaby, BC. This story documents his 40+ year journey as a activist musician and how it informs him as a Green Party politician today.
MPLS Festival Film | THIS IS A FILM ABOUT THE BLACK KEYS
This is a film about The Black Keys traces Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney's remarkable journey from two neighborhood kids jamming in a basement in Akron, Ohio to rock ’n roll super-stardom.
MPLS Festival Film | 1-800-ON-HER-OWN + FARM GRRRL FOLK PUNK: MOTHERWORT (short film)
1-800-ON-HER-OWN follows groundbreaking indie musician/feminist Ani DiFranco, founder of the first “woman-run non-corporate queer-happy” label, Righteous Babe Records, on a wild road trip from her punk-folk past to her life today as an activist and rock star. Throughout, Ani remains resolutely true to herself, no matter the cost.
MPLS Festival Film | DOCUMENTARY SHORTS + MUSIC VIDEOS (Filmmakers Present)
Once again Sound Unseen presents a collection of documentary short films and music videos that span the globe from right here in Minneapolis to Armenia, China, and everywhere in between.
MPLS Festival Film | GARLAND JEFFREYS: THE KING OF IN BETWEEN (Filmmaker Present)
The name Garland Jeffreys either means nothing to you or everything to you.
MPLS Festival Film | 7 NIGHTS IN THE ENTRY (FILMMAKER Present)
Seven nights that shook the world… well maybe not the world but it was pretty loud…
MPLS Festival Film | NARRATIVE SHORTS + MUSIC VIDEOS (Filmmakers Present)
Narrative shorts and music videos from across the globe featuring everything from an aging rocker enjoying one last night on the town to a Chaplin-esque story about an unlikely friendship. Oh, and Silversun Pickups sing a song with Butch Vig about David Lynch's furniture.
MPLS Festival Film | THE TARGET SHOOTS FIRST + HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT (short film)
“Guerrilla infiltration? Or a sly spin on corporate marketing? Subversives aside, The Target Shoots First is a hilarious, hyper peek inside that mail-order music monster, Columbia House.” —Steve Seid (Berkeley: Pacific Film Archive, 1999)
MPLS Festival Film | LINDA PERRY: LET IT DIE HERE (filmmaker Present) + Performance
Linda Perry: Let It Die Here offers an intimate look at the life and creative process of an artist who dreams big but still struggles with the past and present.