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Minneapolis music documentary festival Sound Unseen is back for its 25th iteration and is bringing new films about likes of Devo and Linda Perry with it.
Chris Smith’s Devo, which tells the story of the radical and deeply political band behind Whip It and their rise from Akron, Ohio, will open the festival on Wednesday November 13, while Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, which comes from Don Hardy and tells the story of the 4 Non Blondes star, will close the festival. Hardy and Perry will both be present for a post -screening Q&A.
The festival runs between November 13 and November 17.
Other films at the festival include Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements film about the Stephen Malkmus-fronted indie rockers and Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, a story about the At The Drive-In and Mars Volta rockers.
Elsewhere, there is a tribute screening of Don McGlynn’s Spider John Koerner: Been Here…Done That, Dana Flor’s 1-800-On-Her-Own about Ani DiFranco, the second screening ever of Twin/Tone Records’ 2007 doc 7 Nights In The Entry, a special presentation of Robert Wiene’s German Expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari accompanied by a live music performance of the film’s score, Sander Maran’s Chainsaws Were Singing, D.O.A., starring X musician and actor John Doe, who will be in attendance, and Al X Gav’s M-80.
Sound Unseen will also present a 100th Anniversary screening of Robert Wiene’s The Hands Of Orlac (1924) featuring a live performance of the score by Katie Condon.
This year, there will also be more live music than in previous years with performances from the likes of Linda Perry, Revo alongside the Devo screening, Charlie Parr playing before Spider John Koerner: Been Here…Done That, two nights with Lydia Loveless, a post Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted performance by Soul/R&B legend Swamp Dogg, and a closing night live show by Venus Demars.
The Sound Unseen Film + Music Festival also operates events in Rochester between December 5-8 and in Austin between December 12-14.
Sound Unseen’s Festival Director Jim Brunzell, said, “Being that this is both Sound Unseen’s 25th Anniversary along with a planned break from organizing an annual festival, our entire programming team wanted to offer an eclectic mix of the best rock documentaries on the festival circuit and something completely different in our programming with a few special sidebars including Sounds Like WTF? (music films with Genre elements) and Land of 10,000 Sounds (featuring Minnesota based artists and films).”
He added, “This year’s lineup includes films from across the globe from top tier festivals including Sundance, Berlin, SXSW, Tribeca, Venice, TIFF and Edinburgh festivals and our short programs really capture this year’s overall vibe of artists and filmmakers taking risks in their storytelling. The bands we have scheduled to perform at our partnered music venue Cloudland, the panels we have planned, and all of the events that we have made a name for ourselves with film and music festivals in each of these three cities. It is an exciting and diverse program with documentaries, narrative films, shorts, music videos, returning alumni, and new discoveries – all designed to have a much beloved celebration and intermission.”
The 2024 Sound Unseen Film Festival Lineup:
Devo (Chris Smith)
Linda Perry: Let It Die Here (Don Hardy)
D.O.A. (Kurt St. Thomas)
Spider John Koerner: Been Here…Done That (Don McGlynn)
Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson)
1-800-On-Her-Own (Dana Flor)
7 Nights In The Entry (Twin/Tone)
A Desert (Joshua Erkman)
Art & Life: The Story Of Jim Phillips (John Makens)
Born To Be Wild: The Story Of Steppenwolf (Oliver Schwehm)
Chainsaws Were Singing (Sander Maran)
Decibel (Zac Locke)
Fifty Years In Sixty Minutes: Films From The Bob Dylan Archive
Garland Jeffreys: The King Of In Between (Claire Jeffreys)
Hello Dankness (Soda Jerk)
It Was All A Dream (dream hampton)
It’s All Gonna Break (Stephen Chung)
M-80 (Al X Gav)
New Wave (Elizabeth Ai)
Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird (Nicolas Jack Davies)
Pavements (Alex Ross Perry)
Pretty Ugly- The Story Of The Lunachicks (Ilya Chaiken)
S/He Is Still Her/e (David Charles Rodrigues)
Salad Days: A Decade Of Punk In Washington DC (Scott Crawford)
Shari & Lamb Chop (Lisa D’Apolito)
Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands (Carla J. Easton, Blair Young)
Something Better Change (Scott Crawford)
Soundtrack To A Coup D’etat (Johan Grimonprez)
Takin’ Care Of Business (Tyler Measom)
Teaches Of Peaches (Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer)
The Hands Of Orlac (Robert Wiene)
The Target Shoots First (Chris Wilcha)
The World According To Allee Willis (Alexis Manya Spraic)
This Is A Film About The Black Keys (Jeff Dupre)
Zenithal (Jean-Baptiste Saurel)
Short Films:
À Toi Les Oreilles (Alexandre Isabelle)
Baseball Furies: Extra Innings (Jason Dummeldinger)
Beijing Story (Khalid Ali)
Dale (Justin Streichman)
Dion & Denver (Zack Hosseini)
Farm Grrrl Folk Punk: Motherwort (Austin Bunn)
Heavy Metal Parking Lot (John Heyn, Jeff Krulik)
Hi! You Are Currently Being Recorded (Anna Maguire, Kyle Greenberg)
Keep The Party Going (Mick Marseilles)
Look At My Furniture (Michael X. Ferraro)
Stud Country (Lina Abascal, Alexandra Kern)
The Falcons (Taniel Kilajian)
The Machine Room (Jack Ethan Perry)
The Music Factory (Cina Espejond og, Alf Martin Løvvold)
Tr(Ol)L: New Kids On The Block, Total Request Live And The Chain Letter That Changed The Internet (Yourgo Artsitas)
Used To Be (Dan Schneidkraut)
