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November 13-15 at the Trylon
Sound Unseen returns for their 25th annual film festival. Tickets are $15 and will go on sale Wednesday, October 9. Trylon discount cards are not accepted at Sound Unseen Festival screenings. For information about screenings at other venues, please visit http://www.soundunseen.com/
(2023, USA, DCP, 81m) dir Dan Covert. You may not know his name, but his art is everywhere. It’s on your Apple Watch, splashed on the sides of buildings, exhibited in countless galleries around the world, in title designs for films by Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze, and featured in collabs with Vans, Warby Parker,…
Screenings: November 8 7:00
(2023, USA, DCP, 90m) dir Jed I. Rosenberg. An up-close cinematic walkabout through the life of Gary Young, the original (and highly unlikely) drummer of indie rock royalty Pavement. His booze and drugs-fueled antics (on-stage handstands, gifting vegetables to fans) and haphazard production methods (accidentally helping launch the lo-fi aesthetic) were both a driving force…
Screenings: November 8 9:15
(2022, USA, DCP, 91m) dir Andy Brown & Brian Lindstrom. Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill is a feature documentary exploring the life, creativity and legacy of one of the least known but critically acclaimed artists to emerge from 1970’s LA music scene. Judee went from kicking heroin while in prison to the cover…
Screenings: November 9 7:00
(2023, USA, DCP, 78m) dir Chris Moukarbel. Winner of the 2023 Tribeca Festival U.S. Narrative Feature Award. Tierra Whack first gained recognition at the age of 15 when she stunned viewers with her slick poetry while rapping for a YouTube channel on a Philadelphia street. The video rapidly drew thousands of views and marked the…
Screenings: November 9 9:15
(2013, USA, DCP, 82m) dir Sini Anderson. Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod. Her critics wished…
Screenings: November 10 7:00
(1996, UK, DCP, 93m) dir Danny Boyle. Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, this is the story of Mark and his so-called friends--a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies.…
Screenings: November 10 9:15
(2023, USA, DCP, 83m) dir Mike McGuff. Once upon a time, before our lives went fully digital, radio entertained, informed and dictated what was cool through theater of the mind – and with that Houston's 101 KLOL played a big role in the lives of rock radio listeners. The forthcoming documentary Runaway Radio focuses on…
Screenings: November 11 2:30
(2023, USA, DCP, 95m) dir Katherine Propper. Sol (Sauve Sidle) is an aspiring young rapper living with his best friend Wesley (Siyanda Stillwell), whose family has embraced him as a brother. After a raucous night causes Wesley to overdose, Sol abandons him at a house party, and eventually chooses to leave home for good and…
Screenings: November 11 5:00
(2023, USA, DCP, 86m) dir Alex Rappoport. When filmmaker Alex Rappoport met then-79 year old abstract artist Peter Bradley in early 2020, Bradley hadn't sold many paintings nor had a major show in over four decades - yet he still painted every day in a shipping container studio heated by a wood stove, no matter…
Screenings: November 12 2:30
(2024, 98m, MN Premiere) dir Alexis Manya Spraic. Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what…
Screenings: November 13 7:00
(2024, 102m, Germany, MN Premiere) dir Philipp Fussenegger, Judy Landkammer. Capturing Peaches' transformative journey on 'The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary Tour' in 2022, this documentary blends exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage. From stage show inception to riveting performances, it offers an intimate look at the inner workings of feminist icon Peaches, a fearless…
Screenings: November 13 9:00
(2024, 85m, UK, North American Premiere) dir Carla J. Easton, Blair Young. A feature-length documentary unearthing the Scottish girl bands from 1960 onwards that are missing from the ranks of global success; artists whose work was, and continues to be, ignored by the selective bias of a male-dominated industry. Blending personal anecdotes with a scrapbook-style…
Screenings: November 14 7:00
(2024, 127m, Germany, MN Premiere) dir Nicolas Jack Davies. Get an all-access pass into the masterminds behind Grammy award-winning band The Mars Volta: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Whittled down from hundreds of hours of footage shot by Omar throughout their lives, the film shows the iconic duo’s journey from the hardcore scene in El…
Screenings: November 14 9:00
(2024, 80m, MN Premiere) “It Was All a Dream” is a feature-length archival documentary by dream hampton. An NYU film student when she began shooting in 1993, hampton was already a provocative music journalist and critic with access to rap’s emerging superstars including her neighbor The Notorious BIG, Snoop, Mobb Dee and Method Man from…
Screenings: November 15 7:00
(2024, 80m, France, Midwest Premiere) dir Jean-Baptiste Saurel. Ti-Kong, the famous Kung-fu master, is found dead. Could the assassin be the Machiavellian doctor Sweeper? Insecure Francis falls into his clutches as he becomes a crucial part of Sweeper’s scheme to preserve absolute male domination over the globe. That is unless Sonia, Francis’ girlfriend, decides to…
Screenings: November 15 9:00