Drag City
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Complicated Drumming Technique
Jens Hannemann knows everything there is to know about rudiments, hand-foot control, tempo, time signatures, cymbal and bell work, stick positioning, stick inspection, stage presence, jazz terms, rock terms, music reading, drum composition, drum notation, crowd work, drum...Watch Movie
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Slitch
SLITCH is a short comic film about a teenage girl's summertime lust, featuring fantasizing, bubble gum and bicycle riding. Directed by Dianne Bellino with a soundtrack by the Continental Op. SLITCH stars Will Oldham as a mentally unbalanced surfer, blending in seamlessly with a cast of lovely...Watch Movie
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Ouled Bambara
Gnawa music is that of the ritual tradition known in Morocco as Tagnawit, "the craft of the Gnawi." The Gnawa are the practitioners of this tradition, be they the musicians or the initiates and clairvoyants who sponsor ceremonies and trance to the music. Their healing rituals are intercessions...Watch Movie
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Kick That Habit
KICK THAT HABIT is a film created in the bleak eastern region of Switzerland. At first, a group plays a game of mini-golf, then the Swiss musicians Voice Crack (Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl) rehearse in the studio, afterward heading up to Alpstein, at which point you are right in the middle of a...Watch Movie
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Signer's Suitcase
SIGNER'S SUITCASE is a kind of a road movie that follows a magically charged fault-line through the European landscape. From the Swiss Alps to eastern Poland, from Stromboli to Iceland... a wide-ranging attempt at setting an ideal travel speed. The artist, Roman Signer, marks...Watch Movie
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Metamorphosis
METAMORPHOSIS provides a definitive visual record of the first twenty years of legendary Japanese psych-rockers Ghost (they carried on for another decade before disbanding in 2014). Opening with footage of frontman (and sole constant member) Masaki Batoh protesting the occupation of Tibet in...Watch Movie
