FABRICATING TOM ZE
Ever hear “Smoke on the Water” as a samba? Brazilian musical iconoclast Tom Zé turns your head around. With David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
(dir: Decios Matos Jr. 2007 89 min.)
BRASS UNBOUND
Musicians in Nepal, Suriname, Indonesia, and Ghana liberate the military instruments the colonialists left behind. Colonel Bogey never sounded so funky.
(dir: Johan van der Keuken 1993 106 min.)
FILM @ C4NM is 6-week series screening some of the most compelling new music documentaries and performance films of the past decade.
Screenings on weekends March 15 through April 19.
Produced by Suki O’Kane; curated by Peter Esmonde.
With grateful thanks to: Steve Elkins; Adam Fong; Henry Kaiser; Jeremy Marre; Decios Matos, Jr.; Brent Miller; Larry Ochs; Steve Okazaki; Jon Raskin; John Rogers; Frank Scheffer; Jeffrey Wood/Fantasy Studios; and the dedicated interns and volunteers of C4NM.