SPOT Film hooks up with CPH:DOX, which will be in charge of selecting 10 mind-blowing music films for the SPOT audience. Below you will get samples of four of these.
A brotherly conflict in the rock band The National, the reunion of The Stone Roses, death metal in Angola and the gender balance in Danish music. The music film section of the film branch of the SPOT Festival covers a lot of ground. CPH:DOX is in charge of the programme, which will present a total of 10 carefully selected music documentaries from all over the world, including a couple of brand new films when SPOT takes place from the first to the fourth of May. Many of the screenings will be combined with panel debates and Q&As with the directors.
The music film section is called SPOT The Music, and the first four titles have now been confirmed.
Stone Roses: Made of Stone, a huge hit with the audience at last year’s CPH:DOX directed by This Is England director and Stone Roses fan boy Shane Meadows.
Death Metal Angola by Jeremy Xido, a genuine music documentary miracle from Angola about the head of a children’s home Sonia Ferreira, who is dreaming about a national live concert for the metal rock scene, which eventually rises from the ashes of three decades of civil war.
En Køn Balance, a brand new, Danish documentary by Astrid Dynesen, who takes it upon her to examine the distorted gender balance in Danish music through interviews with eight female musicians, including Nelson Can, who you can also see live at SPOT. The film will be followed by a panel debate with musicians playing at the festival and some of the music business people who are at the festival.
Finally there is the much talked-about Mistaken for Strangers, a self-exposing film by The National lead singer Matt Berninger’s no-good little brother Tom, who comes a with the band as a roadie, but who is more focused on making what turns out to be an original, funny and very touching documentary about two very different brothers’ complex relationship.
In addition to the music film section supervised by CPH:DOX, SPOT Film also presents the most interesting works of the current Danish and Nordic film production in the main section SPOT The Film and a number of groundbreaking music videos in the section called SPOT The Video. All of this side by side with the more than 100 showcase concerts at the festival, an interactive conference and a number of special events across the three branches music, film and interactive media.
