Synopsis
With limitless energy, wit and invention, SOUND FOR THE FUTURE is a free-wheeling, part-animated, kaleidoscopic musical investigation into a half-remembered, fractured family history, built on a solid love of the DIY post-punk aesthetic.
Most of all it is a celebration of the power of creative resistance that unites young people across the generations.
Featuring music from XTC, SLEAFORD MODS, GANG OF FOUR, THE STRANGLERS, OUGHT, FRED CHAMPION, LUFT, GENERATION RIOT, HELLHOUSE, EDWARD ELGAR and THE HIPPIES, accompanied by an original score from SIMON FISHER TURNER.
SOUND FOR THE FUTURE features the last performance by the sadly departed Andy Gill of GANG OF FOUR.
The film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival at 20.30 on Saturday 10th of October 2020.
“Somewhere between memoir, re-enactment, pantomime, masque, ventriloquism and school reports resides the ‘truth’.”
Gareth Evans, Whitechapel Gallery