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REBEL DREAD
DON LETTS

The story of Britain's "punky-reggae party" counterculture and its dreadlocked agitator, maverick DJ/musician, filmmaker, commentator and Big Audio Dynamite sample-scalpelist DON LETTS

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I GET KNOCKED DOWN
CHUMBAWAMBA DOCUMENTARY

15 years before Tubthumping, anarchist agit-punk collective Chumbawamba began stirring up shit with anti-consumerist song-actions. Now the world's totally shit & Dunstan Bruce is a bit lost.

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ST VINCENT
THE NOWHERE INN

Portlandia's Carrie Brownstein sets out to make a probing film on Annie Clark, but the musician's St Vincent persona ensures it's an absurdist, satirical mockumentary. Sydney Premiere

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REBEL DYKES
SYDNEY PREMIERE

In 1980s Britain, aside from the Greenham Common's wimmin protests, radical lesbian bikers, DJs, musos, artists, feminists, punks and performers forged their own sexual liberation front.

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SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS
SYDNEY PREMIERE

The often sidelined herstory of the world's pioneering maverick women of electronic music - dating back to Daphne Oram - finally gets its Sydney premiere, February 2022 for two dates only

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ALL THE STREETS ARE SILENT
NY'S Convergence of Hip-Hop + Skateboarding

Breathtaking skate stunts/archival footage and downtown hip hop cameos galore, this is the story of two underground street cultures forging the foundation of modern street style

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THROBBING GRISTLE
Sydney/Melbourne Premieres

This in-depth look at the pioneers of "industrial" music is also the first film-documented history of the electronic group's “wreckers of civilization” art-collective, COUM Transmissions

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POLY STYRENE
I Am A Cliché

Her infamous rallying cry "Oh Bondage, Up Yours!" was both political and personal, just like this feature doc about the X-Ray Spex front-woman, mother and warrior who stared down demons

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FANNY DOCUMENTARY
Queer Screen Film Festival

Being an all-women band co-founded by Filipina-American and queer bandmates in the '60s didn't stop these wild and talented players from amassing a cult following and fans like David Bowie

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PHIL LYNOTT DOCUMENTARY
Preview Premiere for Vivid

“You just didn’t see Black people in Ireland in the ‘50s.” That all changed when Thin Lizzy's charismatic singer/bassist burst from the clutches of a sad backstory and on to world stages

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DELIA DERBYSHIRE
THE MYTHS & LEGENDARY TAPES

New, stunningly rendered cinematic portrait of the pioneering electronic musician and BBC Radiophonic Workshop member who famously conceived the original Doctor Who TV theme

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DEVIL’S PIE: D’ANGELO
Australian Premiere

Whether filmed in the studio or on stage, this invigorating new documentary gets closer than most have before to a complexly guarded character and r'n'b/soul's much heralded 'Black Messaiah'

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