Instrument + Pre-Screening Virtual Q&A w/ Ian MacKaye of Fugazi
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Jem Cohen Run Time: 115 min.
Starring: Brendan Canty, Guy Picciotto, Ian MacKaye, Joe Lally
Join us on Monday, December 16th, at 7:30PM as Outsider Art presents a special 25th Anniversary (and only Southern California screening) of the Fugazi documentary, Instrument. At 7:30PM a virtual Q&A with Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye will take place followed by a screening of the documentary film at 8:30PM.
Instrument, a film by director Jem Cohen and Fugazi. A visual record of music making shot over ten years; concerts, interviews, tours, practice, portraits, landscapes, studio, super8, 16mm and video (1987-1997)
The film takes it’s title from a song from the band’s 1993 album In on the Kill Taker. Shot on super8, 16mm and video the film is composed mainly of footage of concerts, interviews with the band members, practices, tours and time spent in the studio recording their 1995 album Red Medicine. The film also includes portraits of fans as well as interviews at various Fugazi shows around the United States throughout the years.