Thursday, April 16th at 7:00 pm Long before Austin made weirdness a civic virtue, The Dicks made it a cause. Three rawboned Marlboro Man types fronted by Gary Floyd, a fat queer with a penchant for fright wigs, this self-described "commie faggot band" helped put the Texas capital on the punk map in the early '80s with anthems like "Dicks Hate the Police" and "Wheelchair Epidemic." Cindy Marabito was there, and her super-DIY documentary is an affectionate oral history of a truly distinctive hardcore scene that, like the band and community it chronicles, makes up in attitude and personality what it lacks in polish.
PLAYING WITH: Donzelle - Libido Zero - Simon Harrison & Namaï KhamPo / Canada / 4 min. - Libido Macro is a glimpse at how Donzelle and her dancers get ready before they go out and get what they want.
Thursday April 16, 2015 7:00pm - 8:30pm CDT
Society For Arts1112 N. Milwaukee
Friday, April 17th at 10:45 pm In 2013, cult indie filmmakers and brothers Todd and Brad Barnes set out to shoot a documentary about the burgeoning East Nashville singer-songwriter scene, but weed, whiskey, and musician Todd Snider took over and the result is a hilarious alternative-universe Opryland. Showcasing a host of local stalwarts, beloved hippie bard Snider and his buddies smoke, joke, bang out bent ballads, and somehow put on a shambolic tryout talk show for the East Nashville chanteuse and David Letterman favorite Elizabeth Cook. Another pair of movie siblings, Jay and Mark Duplass, declare that the Barnes Brothers "have revealed a side of Nashville you definitely won't see on CMT."
PLAYING WITH: Velcro Lewis Group - "They're Having a Party" - Kenny Reed / USA / 5 min. - The party was going just fine until a Satanist spiked the punch bowl--join the freak-out with Chicago’s one-and-only occultist funk rock outfit.
Friday April 17, 2015 10:45pm - Saturday April 18, 2015 12:10am CDT
Society For Arts1112 N. Milwaukee
The men that would become the Blind Boys of Alabama, met as children at the Talladega Institute for the Blind, a segregated state-run vocational school. Buoyed by their local popularity – the boys used to sneak off campus to perform at a nearby military base – and faced with the bleak career choice of making brooms and mops for a living, the blind youngsters quit school and hit the road. Since the 1930s, the group has been performing around the country and around the world with their unique sound--the lone survivor of a once popular jubilee quartet singing tradition mixed with a powerful hard-gospel quartet style. The Blind Boys of Alabama are a national treasure and if you‘ve ever had the opportunity to catch a live performance, you’ll certainly want to see their entire story told in their own words.
Sunday April 19, 2015 2:15pm - 3:50pm CDT
Society For Arts1112 N. Milwaukee
Sunday, April 19th at 4:30 pm California's indigenous country music became known as "The Bakersfile Sound." Made popular the world over by the likes of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Rose Maddox. It was also pioneered by equally talented but lesser known individuals, like Billy Mize whose golden voice could be heard in west coast honky-tonks throughout the '50s and '60s. In this deeply personal tale about identity and sacrifice, Mize's grandson, filmmaker William J. Saunders, explores his grandfather's evolutionalry role in the emergence of a musical genre and how his charm became legendary among country music's elite. PLAYING WITH: Possessed by Paul James- "Songs We Used To Sing" - Todd Tue / USA / 5 min. - A trip through an empty farmhouse becomes a poignant journey in discovering the artifacts of families who lived there before.
Sunday April 19, 2015 4:30pm - 6:08pm CDT
The Logan Theatre 32646 N. Milwaukee
British DJ, record collector, writer and filmmaker Joseph Fletcher joined Academy Award-winning Bedlam Productions (The King's Speech) to tell this deeply personal, often surreal story of heartbreak and self-discovery. Years of digging through dusty crates of LP’s have yielded Fletcher many obscure, down-home gems from the States--the unheard songs and stories of dreamers, deadbeats and devotees. Are the artists who created these fragments of Americana still out there somewhere? This curious outsider travels to the American South to lose himself amongst the region’s unique landscapes and eccentric personalities. Expecting to find comrades who will share in his misery, he is instead greeted with hope and unshakable faith at every turn.
PLAYING WITH: The Amazing Mr. Ash - Brian Gersten / USA / 12 min. - A day in the life of a beloved Chicago-area magician and owner of Ash's Magic Shop, one of the last remaining magic shops in the city, is celebrated. The endearing 74-year-old Ashod Baboorian shares his story as an Iraqi-Armenian emigrant, a US Army draftee, a country-western singer, and of course a world famous magician.
Sunday April 19, 2015 8:45pm - 10:13pm CDT
The Logan Theatre 32646 N. Milwaukee
