Sponsored by Lagunitas Brewing
Director Lance Bangs in Attendance
Two definitive epochs mark underground rock of the last few decades:
BS (Before Slint) and AS (After Slint). A staple of the Louisville, KY,
scene before their 1990 album
Spiderland
definitively laid down the
gauntlet and provided a road map for untold scores of “post-rock”
bands around the globe to follow, the short-lived but long-loved Slint
has remained one of music fandom’s most mythical, sphinxlike bands —
but
Breadcrumb Trail
, the brand-new documentary by Lance Bangs, now
reveals the minds behind the life-changing music.
Throughout the ‘80's, the members of Slint grew up forming bands,
breaking up and reforming in different configurations: playing
hardcore shows while still in elementary school, touring with Samhain
as 14-year-olds, recording as melodic hardcore band Squirrel Bait at
15, forming Slint in their late teens and recording the classic
Spiderland
before they were 21. And then — they broke up before the
album’s release, giving no interviews and vanishing into their own
shadows. After two decades have passed, Bangs has assembled unseen
footage of the teens writing/arranging
Spiderland
, as well as the
first on-camera interviews with the band members and their
contemporaries trying to decipher what they had been through. Also
featuring Steve Albini, Ian Mackaye, David Grubbs, David Yow, James
Murphy and archival material from Will Oldham!
(Synopsis courtesy of
Cinefamily)
SOUND + VISION
showcases new or existing collaborations between
musicians and filmmakers as a means of exploring how the moving image
informs musical performance and vice versa. Past events showcased new
work by Spike Jonze, never-before-seen works in progress by Michel
Gondry and Lance Bangs, and performances by Bill Callahan, Jeffrey
Jerusalem, Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes), Sufjan Stevens, Hurry Up
(featuring members of the Thermals), Eluvium and the Corin Tucker
Band, among others. Guest programmers have included Lance Bangs,
Carrie Brownstein, Claire L. Evans and Matt McCormick.