Raindance Film Festival 2009

Music and film strand.

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Until The Light Takes Us
Until The Light Takes Us and The Narcotics Farm
All The Years Of Trying (Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Dom Shaw; Stars: Garry Bushell, Patrik Fitzgerald, Everett True, Boff Whalley, Benjamin Zephaniah)
Music documentary about cult ‘punk poet’ Patrik Fitzgerald.
Gogol Bordello Non-Stop (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Margarita Jimeno; Stars: Gogol Bordello, Manu Chao, Susan Donaldson, Eliot Ferguson, Thomas Gobena, Eugene Hutz, Ori Kaplan, Yuri Lemeshev, Katheryn Mcgaffigan, Rea Mochiach, Pamela Racine, Piroska Racz, Sergei Ryabtsev, DJ Scratchy, Elizabeth Sun)
A behind-the-scenes look at the gypsy punk band.
The Hand Of Fatima (Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Augusta Palmer; Stars: Lee Ranaldo, John Giorno, Bill Laswell, Bachir Attar, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Anthony DeCurtis) , Official Site
A double portrait of New York Times music critic Robert Palmer and his favourite band the Master Musicians of Jajouka.
I Need That Record (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Brendan Toller; Stars: Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Noam Chomsky, Chris Frantz, Bob Gruen, Patterson Hood, Lenny Kaye, Ian MacKaye, Legs McNeil, Thurston Moore, Mike Watt) , Official Site
Examining the plight of independent record stores.
Llik your idols (Director: Angelique Bosio) , Official Site
Portrait of filmmakers, artists and musicians in downtown NYC in the 1980s - the cinema of transgression.
Gogol Bordello Non-Stop Gogol Bordello Non-Stop
Gogol Bordello Non-Stop and The Hand Of Fatima
Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time (Country: Canada, UK; Year: 2009; Stars: Steven Duffy)
A journey through three decades with the musician.
The Mighty Boosh Tour Doc (working title) (Director: Oly Ralfe)
The comedy outfit on tour.
The Narcotics Farm (Year: 2008; Director: JP Olsen and Luke Walden)
Former inmates at America’s first jail for drug addicts reveal an untold story of jazz, human drug testing and secret CIA research.
Robyn Hitchcock: I Often Dream of Trains (Country: UK, US; Year: 2009; Director: John Edginton; Stars: Robyn Hitchcock)
Concert film.
They Call It Acid (Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Gordon Mason)
Story of the Acid House culture.
Until The Light Takes Us (Country: US; Year: 2008; Director: Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell; Stars: Varg Vikernes, Fenriz, Harmony Korine, Hellhammer)
A look at the history and aesthetic of Black Metal.
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