Holger Czukay

In 1968, musician Irmin Schmidt and friends founded the avant-garde band "Can", which achieved worldwide fame. Schmidt also made a name for himself as a composer for films by Wim Wenders. In this documentary, the charismatic sound tinkerer looks back on his life and career.

ROCKPALAST FROM THE ARCHIVES WDR HD channel 84 min. - Genre: Rock ('Krautrock') - TV archives Can live in Soest, Germany - Winter 1970 Mixed media show Post-"Monster Movie" period (just before Can masterpieces "Soundtracks", "Tago Mago" and "Ege Bamyasi") Rockpalast archives Band Holger Czukay – bass Irmin Schmidt – organ Michael Karoli – guitar Jaki Liebezeit – drums Damo Suzuki – vocals Songs line-up Sense All of Mine Oh Yeah I Feel Allright Mother Sky Deadlock Bring Me Coffee or Tea Don't Turn the Light On, Leave me Alone Paperhouse

Less a documentary than a primer on all electronic music. Featuring interviews with nearly every major player past and present, as well as a few energetic live clips, Modulations delves into one of electronica's forgotten facets: the human element. Lee travels the globe from the American Midwest to Europe to Japan to try to express the appeal of music often dismissed as soulless. Modulations shows that behind even the most foreign or alien electronic composition lies a real human being, and Lee lets many of these Frankenstein-like creators express and expound upon their personal philosophies and tech-heavy theories. Lee understands that a cultural movement as massive and diverse as dance music can't be contained.

20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed during that same month and recorded over a period of three days.

Dans une époque caractérisée par un certain vide culturel, les fondateurs de Kraftwerk cherchent à exprimer leurs idées novatrices et leurs obsessions à travers des formes inédites. Fondé en 1970, le groupe s'empare des rouages de la pop commerciale pour s'affirmer à l'avant-garde. Pionnier de la musique électro, Kraftwerk invente la musique du futur en se projetant déjà à l'ère du tout-numérique. Longtemps avant l'apparition des premiers téléphones portables, le groupe prédisait ainsi l'avènement d'une époque où les ordinateurs nous relieraient au monde, où notre perception serait guidée par des pixels lumineux, et où notre environnement sonore consisterait en un bruit de fond généré par des machines.

The 12 year old Ina struggle to become a great pianist. Success depends on the music competition "Ein Herz für Mozart". Ina is sent by her mother's command to piano lessons. The piano teacher Holger produces in his free time experimental music from sound collages, but can not prevail with his works in the professional music business. Ina takes a liking to the sound collages of Holger and flees from her domineering mother to him.

The experimental German krautrockers CAN's legendary "Free Concert," recorded in Cologne's Sporthalle, Germany, on February 3, 1972. The circumstances of this Cologne show were unusual. Rather improbably for such an experimental band, Can actually scored a chart success in Germany with "Spoon," which would later be tacked onto the end of Ege Bamyasi.

The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.

Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.

Figure incontournable du rock des années 1970, Conny Plank compte parmi les concepteurs sonores et producteurs de musique les plus innovants de son époque. Pionnier du krautrock et de la pop électronique, il a oeuvré, depuis son légendaire studio de Wolperath, près de Cologne, pour Neu!, Kraftwerk, Eurythmics ou les Rita Mitsouko, jusqu’à sa disparition prématurée à l’âge de 47 ans.

A portrait of the Cologne avant-garde composer and musician Holger Czukay, who called himself a “private symphonist”. In 1968, Czukay, a music college graduate and Stockhausen student, founded the band Can together with his fellow student Irmin Schmidt. In the following years, Can became one of the most innovative music groups of the time. In their music, which was mainly based on improvisation, parts influenced by free jazz mixed with rock passages, repetitive met catchy melodies and dissolved compositional influences from new music with the classical rock schemes. At the same time, Can's music was always groove-based and danceable despite all the complexity.

The 12 year old Ina struggle to become a great pianist. Success depends on the music competition "Ein Herz für Mozart". Ina is sent by her mother's command to piano lessons. The piano teacher Holger produces in his free time experimental music from sound collages, but can not prevail with his works in the professional music business. Ina takes a liking to the sound collages of Holger and flees from her domineering mother to him.

A film essay montage of contemporary footage, archive and cinema history, about the age of post-truth and how one young man’s childhood epilepsy became representative of the woes of the world and how he triumphed against adversity.