Sound Unseen: Idiosyncratic Music Documentaries Were In Full Focus At Twin Cities Film Festival
deadline.comThe world of music documentaries is a complex one. There are plenty of films covering the biggest artists in the world from Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé to Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Hulu’s Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and Martin Scorsese-produced Beatles ’64.
But under the surface, music like alternative music scenes themselves, there’s a phalanx of weird and interesting films about lesser known artists, where the story is often as strange and endearing as the artists.
These often become the films that have longevity, from The Decline of Western Civilization to Dig! This is where the Sound Unseen Film Festival comes in.
Held in the Twin Cities across a variety of cinemas in and around Minneapolis, the festival showcases a slew of leftfield films from interesting directors and filmmakers such as Omar & Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, Ani DiFranco’s 1-800-On-Her Own, hip hop doc It Was All A Dream, Broken Social Scene’s It’s All Gonna Break, Pretty Ugly: The Story of the Lunachicks, Since Yesterday: The Untold Story Of Scotland’s Girl Bands, This Is A Film About The Black Keys and Teaches of Peaches.
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