SONIC YOUTH: SLEEPING NIGHTS AWAKE
A film by Michael Albright and Projeto Moonshine, USA, 2007, 85 min.
Original version with Portuguese subtitles.

It is summer in the USA; they are young high-school students in Reno, Nevada. They carry cameras to record the show and a day in the life of Sonic Youth. The young people are part of Moonshine Project, and are willing to show their own perspective in black and white. Behind-the-scenes and rare statements by Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo, and much music (including: “Tom Violence”, “Shaking Hell”, “Mote”, “Incinerate” and “Kool Thing”). The result is a renewed, youthful documentary, an intimate and spontaneous way of looking closely at one of the most influential bands for the new generation.
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Michael Albright was born and raised in Reno, Nevada, USA. He graduated at the California University, specializing in Cinematography and English. He also studied filmmaking, literature, and photography at Prague University. In 2004 he worked with the documentary director Albert Maysles in New York. Back in Reno, he founded the Moonshine Project, a not-for-profit organization for teaching filmmaking to teenagers, so that they may record important events in their communities. This was the first feature film by the Project, and the critique has been favorable in a number of festivals. Michael Albright has a production company, Moonpix.

http://www.projectmoonshine.org/
Schedule
09.11 _ 22:40