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The Posters Came From The Walls
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Friday Jan 29, 2010 (7:30 & 10:30pm)
Saturday Jan 30, 2010 (8pm)
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$12
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Co-presented by Art Los Angeles Contemporary in association with Gavin Brown's enterprise
A film by 2004 Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams, The Posters Came From the Walls (Depeche Mode fans from around the world), tells stories of faith and devotion from around the world in this fascinating and inspired documentary about fandom.
Depeche Mode -- like The Smiths, Michael Jackson or Insane Clown Posse -- is a musical act that inspires such above-and-beyond devotion from its fans that to the uninitiated, the followers' behavior seems otherworldly, like something out of a movie. But unlike the pompadoured Morrissey clones, the tearful MJ flock or the face-painted slaphappy "Juggalos" -- Depeche Mode fans are all these things and more. Jeremy Deller and Nicholas Abrahams' new doc not only dives into the juicy details of just how thoroughly the band's fans can out-fan each other, but also how the band's rise to popularity and the anti-Communist revolutions behind the Iron Curtain dovetailed, producing a generation of swooning Eastern European life-long devotees.
Dirs. Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams, 2008, DigiBeta, 72 min.
"From a crowd of beautiful Russian teenage girls celebrating “Dave Day” (birthday of singer Dave Gahan, which also falls on a Russian military holiday) by going apeshit to a Depeche Mode concert movie being projected in a St. Petersburg nightclub, to a Californian high school marching band playing 'Personal Jesus'; from one Iranian man who braved police beatings to dress like his heroes, to 16,000 people who turned up for a Los Angeles autograph signing that became a near-riot; from Mexicans imagining the band's hometown of Basildon as an olde English Arcadia, to goths in Cambridge taking communion in church to Depeche Mode's music -- every story [is] exceptional, but entirely believable in its demonstration of how much pop music can affect people." (TheArtsDesk.com)
THE FILMMAKERS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE FOR A POST-SCREENING Q&A AFTER THE JAN. 29th, 7:30PM SHOWING!!!
