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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2009 (4:30pm)
Saturday Oct 17, 2009 (4:30pm)
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Free with museum admission. Film-only tickets: adults $10; seniors $8; members and children under 16 are free; member friends $5. Please visit our website for more details.
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Part of the Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years film exhibition
An intense and fearless documentary portrait of the Iraqi underground metal band Acrassicauda (Latin for “black scorpion”), seriously passionate musicians who seriously risk their lives—and those of their families and fans—as bombs rain down on wartime Baghdad, death threats brand them as worshippers of Satan and degenerate Western culture, and hellish conditions force them to flee their homeland. “Both a stirring testament to the plight of cultural expression in Baghdad and a striking report on the refugee scene in Syria, this rock-doc like no other electrifies its genre and redefines headbanging as an act of hard-core courage” (Nathan Lee, The New York Times).
Heavy Metal in Baghdad. 2008. USA/Canada. Directed by Suroosh Alvi, Eddy Moretti. Produced by Shane Smith, Spike Jonze. Courtesy Vice Films. 84 min.
More information about Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years and the full film schedule
