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Dig!
"$14.50 ...a music doco masterpiece." - Filmink
"***** Unmissable." - Empire Magazine
DIG! is the feature-length documentary shot over
seven years about musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown
Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of the Dandy Warhols, star crossed
friends and bitter rivals. From the moment they met, The Dandy Warhols
and the Brian Jonestown Massacre quickly bonded over a desire to
not conform to the tastes of the recording industry. Yet, the bands’ choices
over how to express their creativity and originality in a profit-driven
industry eventually put them at irreconcilable odds.
Culled from 1500
hours of footage and narrated by Courtney Taylor, DIG! follows
the underground giant Anton Newcombe, unearthing him to be an important
yet largely unnoticed artist of our time.
In 1996 Anton
Newcombe and his band the Brian Jonestown Massacre - who in a decade
independently released 11 albums, 3 recorded in one year – are
hell-bent on staging a revolution in the music industry. They
are convinced their friends, the Dandy Warhols, will join them
to create a united front. But Anton’s creative psychosis
takes him to the most remote areas of the human mind to find his
original art, and as a result, he destroys every opportunity for
financial success.
While tracking the destructive path of the Brian
Jonestown Massacre, DIG! also accompanies the more ‘well-adjusted’ Warhols
through their leader Courtney Taylor, as they navigate the corporate
sea, trying to maintain their creative edge while starring in mega-budget
music videos and entertaining crowds in the tens of thousands.
DIG!
is about both musicians’ love and obsession, gigs and recordings,
arrests and death threats, uppers and downers - their choices between
art and industry, which unfold with the passage of time. Watch the trailer:
Related links:
Dig! Web site (US Web site)
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