James June Schneider
2021Blue Is Beautiful
James June Schneider
James Canty, Ian Svenonius
Made with Washington DC's notorious gospel-punk outfit The Make-Up. The musicians seek "creative asylum" in a subcultural womb. This road movie is, in the words of a Parisian critic, "comme si Foucault roulait avec les situationistes dans le Scooby-Doo Van". It is both a lyrical document of a time and space(s) which no longer exist as well as a record of one of the most kick-ass bands on earth.
Blue Is Beautiful
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
James June Schneider, Paul Bishow
Cynthia Connolly, Dante Ferrando
An in-depth exploration of a seminal moment in DC music history (circa 1976 to 1984) and the rise of harDCore. The film is made up of a mix of rare archive material, conversational interviews, and a collage editing style. Features early DC punk and hardcore bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Slickee Boys, The Faith and more.
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
La banda que buscó el sonido debajo
James June Schneider
Sebastien Arce, Caroline Chaspoul
In February, 2010, the renowned Chilean band Panico traveled through the desert of northern Chile to record an album in the Atacama desert. After two decades of punk and post-punk rock, these offspring of political exiles are themselves rocked by not only the strange sounds and voices of the north but by a major earthquake...
The Band That Met the Sound Beneath
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
James June Schneider
Jean Epstein, Marie Epstein
This portrait of the French film theorist and avant-garde director Jean Epstein (1897-1953) concentrates on the period when he filmed in Brittany, the spot where he became inspired by the sea. Using rare archive footage, Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema also looks at Epstein’s views on the specificity of the film medium.
Jean Epstein, Young Oceans of Cinema
1, 2, 3, Whiteout
James June Schneider
Lou Castel, Karine Adrover
In a future present, a rebellious Veronique finds herself working for an inventor who has dedicated himself to the cause of a positive darkness; he is working to counter the tide of a bright, diffuse, and technologically oriented time as represented in the film by man-made light. Veronique's brother Alix works for an agency that is attempting to thwart the process.
1, 2, 3, Whiteout
