MONKS: THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK

Directed by Dietmar Post / Lucía Palacios

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17 3PM CASTRO

The Monks, 5 American GIs in cold war Germany, who billed themselves as the anti-Beatles, were heavy on feedback, nihilism and electrical banjo. With strange haircuts, dressed in black, they mocked the military and rocked harder than any of their mid-sixties counterparts while managing to invent industrial, punk and techno music.
The genre-overlapping documentary film not only illustrates the pop music phenomenon in its political, social and cultural historic contexts, but also reveals the monks project as the first marriage between art and popular music and this long before Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground.
After more than thirty years the 5 former Monks for the first time talk about their adventure.

IN PERSON Dietmar Post, Eddie Shaw

PURCHASE TICKET

West Coast Premiere

Country
Germany/USA/Spain
Year
2006
Run Time
Digital, 100 min, color & b/w
German, English with
English subtitles
Cast
Gary Burger
(vocals/guitar)
Larry Clark (organ)
Dave Day
(banjo/guitar)
Roger Johnston (drums)
Eddie Shaw (bass)
Camera
Dietmar Post / Lucía Palacios
Screenwriter
Dieter Jaufmann
Printsource
play loud! productions
Email
info@playloud.org

Directors

Dietmar Post
was born in Germany in 1962. He studied Television, Theatre & Cinema Studies and Spanish Language at the Free University of Berlin, New York University and at the University of Madrid (Spain). He received a Master’s degree in 1995. After many years in New York he currently resides in Berlin.

Lucía Palacios
was born in Spain in 1972. She studied Cinema Studies at the University of Madrid. In 1996 she obtained a scholarship to New York University where she worked as production manager for several films and as TV news reporter for Canal+, Televisión Española and SAT. Currently she resides in Berlin.