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"The film "Between the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea, an excursion
into European electronic music that, in its formal approach and
use of tribal rhythms leads the viewer to acknowledge the
importance of sound in film, and there by inverts the usual
relationship of sound to image. Romuald Karmakar films groups
such as Fixmer/McCarthy, Cobra Killer and Xlover and Alter Ego,
whose hit single Rocker was filmed in Ibiza´s Amnesia with the
tranced out audience in the foreground. Each of these bands, in
its own way, reappropriates musical performance in this
documentary that eschews both commentary and interviews, filmed
in sequence shots, which allows the viewer to follow the
structure of a song as well as the performance itself.
Between
the Devil and the Wide Blue Sea is an extraordinary exploration
of an underground milieu that has gradually turned into a
worldwide culture." |
