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The Fugazi Documentary Will Return for Another Week – Washingtonian
{Photograph} by Jem Cohen, courtesy Dischord.
We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC will return to the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Heart from April 7-13. The 96-minute movie takes a unique tack from many music documentaries: It’s primarily based on footage shot by followers.
“It’s in regards to the individuals who had the initiative to carry their cameras,” says Jeff Krulik, the longtime native director who was one of many documentary’s three “curators”—the others being Joe Gross and Joseph Pattisall. Certainly, whereas the seminal DC band has blessed the venture, half the enjoyable of the movie is seeing a few of these novice documentarians’ eyes gentle up as they discuss wedging themselves into some aerial perch to document the live performance.
For Gen X followers who noticed the band the primary time round or for youthful individuals who solely know the band as a historic entity, the opposite half of the enjoyable is seeing Fugazi’s legendary dwell exhibits.
The primary run of screenings in February bought out. The tickets for this seven-showing collection, like that one, can be priced at $5–the identical quantity Fugazi insisted on charging for its concert events.
Subsequent up, Krulik says, are showings exterior Washington, in Brooklyn and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “We have now curiosity from across the nation,” Krulik says, and the filmmakers plan a “gradual rollout” of theatrical occasions. What about streaming? No plans for that, but, he says: “It’s a communal factor. We like bringing folks collectively to see it. However you understand, who’s kidding who? Folks need to see stuff of their residing rooms finally.”
The curators looked for authentic VHS and Hello-8 footage to make the movie.”We didn’t need to take it off of YouTube,” Krulik says. “Fairly truthfully, there’s extra materials coming ahead. Who is aware of, we’d do a Quantity 2.”
We Are Fugazi From Washington, DC runs April 7-13 at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Heart, 8633 Colesville Street, Silver Spring. Tickets are $5 and accessible right here.