documentary, 2015,  Amélie Ravalec & Travis Collins– 52 min. – o.v. / French subtitles

The film guides you through the up-and-coming avant-garde scene in run-down cities in the US and Europe in the late’70s and early’80s.
Industrial music came into being in the mid ‘70s and provided a lively, provocative and artistic soundtrack for the picket lines, the economic decline and the cultural oppression of the time. The industrial music pioneers (be it factory workers, students or homeless people) where all artists with a political and artistic commitment who, with little or no musical background, wrote musical history.

They were inspired by Krautrock bands like Faust, Kraftwerk and Can, by 20th century art movements like Dadaism, Futurism and Surrealism and by post-modern writers like William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and J.G. Ballard.

By combining the DIY-attitude of punk with mail-art and the rising underground fanzines, these pioneers were also amongst the first musicians to mix tape-loops, self-made synthesizers, field-recordings and cut-up techniques in their music.
A number of the artists who worked on this film are: Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter and Cosey fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristel), Graeme Revel (SPK), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Boyd Rice (NON), Adi Newton (Clock DVA), Test Dept, Z’EV, Dirk Ivens (The Klinik), Hula,…

all seats are taken for this screening