Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin
Over a decade’s worth of footage shot at home and on tour by his filmmaker partner Katia deVidas compose the starkly intimate portrait of the frontman of The Libertines and Babyshambles. Peter Doherty was the most iconic voice of British indie-rock in the 2000s. Revealed by an artist who “only knew how to live inside […]
Riqueni
The shocking battle of the master of flamenco guitar Rafael Riqueni to get out of the death in life of alcoholism and his fragile mental health. Along with director Paco Bech’s friendly hand, we witness that decade of relapses, internments and human generosity and his unlikely resurrection –crossing paths with Estrella Morente, Rocío Molina and […]
Revolutionary Quartet, l’enigma Gerhard
Catalunya’s Robert Gerhard was one of the most remarkable and mysterious composers of the twentieth century, still relatively unknown due to his exile in England and because part of his work remains to be discovered. This insightful review of his life and work deciphers the depth and idiosyncrasy –between the popular and the avant-garde– of […]
Music For Black Pigeons
A close, reflective and impressionistic look at living by and for music. Over the course of 14 years, the camera absorbs Danish guitarist and composer Jakob Bro’s encounters with an exceptional line-up of jazz musicians. Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Midori Takada, Paul Motian, Jon Christensen, Thomas Morgan and Joe Lovano, among others, keep our curiosity […]