THERE IS NO AUTHORITY BUT YOURSELF
FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER AT 7:30PM
Country Netherlands RT 70 mins Format DigiBeta Director/DoP Alexander Oey Producers Bruno Felix, Femke Wolting Sound Benny Jansen Featuring Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, Steve Ignorant, Eve Libertine Print Source Submarine E info@submarine.nl W www.submarine.nl
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Alexander Oey’s highly articulate film about the mighty Crass, from 1977 to 1984 and on to the present day, showing the band’s former personnel still living an authentic existence ‘outside the framework’, is timely.
Crass were at the vanguard of anarchist-punk and it was never just about the music, the records, the artwork and the films, the scrapes with the cops, the government and the KGB. They were directly responsible for the huge influx of activists to the peace movement at the time, they were the most vocal opposition to the Falklands War in this country. Questions were asked in Parliament: ‘Has the Prime Minister listened today to the record How Does It Feel To Be The Mother Of A Thousand Dead?’
Penny Rimbaud (drums, lyrics) and Gee Vaucher (artwork, films) have lived at Dial House since the ’60s. Alongside Mick Duffield’s gorgeous super-8mm films of the band is footage of the inclusive Permaculture courses held at Dial House today, including a workshop on compost toilets where a lithe, naked Penny offers to ‘drop one’ for the camera. Steve Ignorant (vocals) recalls visiting as a teenage suedehead: ‘What I really liked about Penny and Gee and the others was that for the first time in my life, if they asked me a question, I was treated as an equal’. Penny and Gee will be on-hand after the screening for a Q&A with Mojo’s Kieron Tyler. DT
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