Ciné Concert "Western Lands"

Western Lands (film-docu) + concert. Documentary by Nicolas Drolc – les films 2024 – FR / USA – 1h26 minutes. Experimental documentary road movie on the counterculture of the American West Coast, from San Francisco to Seattle, from the Beatniks to Grunge. A journey to the western United States that can reconcile us with this America whose cultural reputation is badly damaged by triumphant Trumpism. Concert: Andy Dale Petty (folk / haunted blues – Alabama, USA) Two albums on the Swiss label Voodoo Rhythm Records, incessant tours in the USA and Europe for 15 years, Andy is a modern troubadour, in the vein of Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt and Townes Van Zandt. He co-wrote and shot the documentary Western Lands with Nicolas Drolc and wrote the film's soundtrack. Synopsis: When it comes to the USA, there are different ways to take the pulse of a country that is excessively sick with an unworthy political life, a distressing economic bias and a harassing religious presence. Nicolas Drolc's is not the least original. Who, well helped by the musician Andy Dale Petty, a leading figure in the Bungalow Sessions, a previous project, focused his gaze on the far West, covering San Francisco and northern California to Seattle, passing very logically through Portland and Oregon. To walk through the rubble of a counterculture that is now wavering and told by those who have experienced it up close. Beatniks, freaks, punks or grunge all have in common this bewilderment at contemplating, today, a world that has become irremediably hostile. Usual prices.

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