Music On Film: Electrick Children
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Mon 27 August 2012 // 20:00
(Mon 27th / 8pm / £5/4)
The Cube film programming team and the music programming team have come together in an orgy of ideas resulting in a three day mini-festival of films about music. We kick off with:
Electrick Children (2012)
(Rebecca Thomas / 2012 / USA / 96 minutes / cert TBC)
Conception by cassette? 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) certainly believes this to be the case in Rebecca Thomas’ eccentric feature début, set in the 1980s. Living with her family in a small fundamentalist Mormon community out in the Nevada desert, Rachel lives a pious and simple life until she discovers a forbidden, unlabelled cassette tape containing The Nerves’ ‘Hanging on the Telephone’. Shortly after this exciting discovery Rachel falls pregnant, resulting in the swift arrangement of a shotgun wedding. Believing that she is has fallen pregnant as a result of having listened to the tape, Rachel rejects her father's (Billy Zane) wishes, abandons her life in Utah, and heads to Las Vegas in search of the father of her child. There she discovers an overwhelming new world in the dizzying streets of Sin City, where she meets misfit rock musician Clyde. (Rory Culkin) Electrick Children was very well received on this year’s film festival circuit and has great potential as a cult indie film.
http://vimeo.com/36104775
The Cube film programming team and the music programming team have come together in an orgy of ideas resulting in a three day mini-festival of films about music. We kick off with:
Electrick Children (2012)
(Rebecca Thomas / 2012 / USA / 96 minutes / cert TBC)
Conception by cassette? 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) certainly believes this to be the case in Rebecca Thomas’ eccentric feature début, set in the 1980s. Living with her family in a small fundamentalist Mormon community out in the Nevada desert, Rachel lives a pious and simple life until she discovers a forbidden, unlabelled cassette tape containing The Nerves’ ‘Hanging on the Telephone’. Shortly after this exciting discovery Rachel falls pregnant, resulting in the swift arrangement of a shotgun wedding. Believing that she is has fallen pregnant as a result of having listened to the tape, Rachel rejects her father's (Billy Zane) wishes, abandons her life in Utah, and heads to Las Vegas in search of the father of her child. There she discovers an overwhelming new world in the dizzying streets of Sin City, where she meets misfit rock musician Clyde. (Rory Culkin) Electrick Children was very well received on this year’s film festival circuit and has great potential as a cult indie film.
http://vimeo.com/36104775