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CRASS: The Sound Of Free Speech
Event by: Mariatchi Nitra
Location: Mostná 220/35, Mostná 35, Nitra
About event
The Slovak premiere of a documentary film about the history of the first British anarcho-punk band Crass.
Crass were an art collective and punk band founded in 1977 and voluntarily disbanded in 1984. They promoted anarchism and a resistance movement that awakened and attracted many followers. . They have inspired many groups and artists, such as The Levellers and Tim Burgess, the singer of the Charlatans.
Film director Brandon Spivey traces the birth of their first single "Reality Asylum" through interviews with Crass founders Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud and the owner of the label. Small Wonder by Pete Stennett. He does not take napkins and shows what it is like to be active within the anarchist movement - not to shut up and protest against a select few.
Spivey gradually expands the scope and through honest open conversations touches on attacks from the church and by public laundries in Ireland; of the greatest war threatening humanity, namely the class struggle; also what it was like to be a punk band in the 70s and 80s. Filmed with the blessing of all the members of Crass, the documentary provides an insight into 1970s Britain, the birth of punk and the founding of Crass, as well as the sense of life of those who struggled to understand the brutal and dehumanized society they were born into and which excluded them. from the future.
Their story has inspired countless others, and they seem more relevant today than ever.
Director: Brandon Spivey | UK | 2023 | 90 min Czech subtitles
Admission 3 EUR
Crass were an art collective and punk band founded in 1977 and voluntarily disbanded in 1984. They promoted anarchism and a resistance movement that awakened and attracted many followers. . They have inspired many groups and artists, such as The Levellers and Tim Burgess, the singer of the Charlatans.
Film director Brandon Spivey traces the birth of their first single "Reality Asylum" through interviews with Crass founders Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud and the owner of the label. Small Wonder by Pete Stennett. He does not take napkins and shows what it is like to be active within the anarchist movement - not to shut up and protest against a select few.
Spivey gradually expands the scope and through honest open conversations touches on attacks from the church and by public laundries in Ireland; of the greatest war threatening humanity, namely the class struggle; also what it was like to be a punk band in the 70s and 80s. Filmed with the blessing of all the members of Crass, the documentary provides an insight into 1970s Britain, the birth of punk and the founding of Crass, as well as the sense of life of those who struggled to understand the brutal and dehumanized society they were born into and which excluded them. from the future.
Their story has inspired countless others, and they seem more relevant today than ever.
Director: Brandon Spivey | UK | 2023 | 90 min Czech subtitles
Admission 3 EUR