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Thursday, February 19 - 7:30 PM
L.A. Premiere - New Music Documentary:
JANDEK ON CORWOOD, 2003, 88 min.

Go to www.americancinematheque.com for more info on the screening.
Visit www.jandekoncorwood.com for info on the film.

Who is Jandek?* What is Corwood Industries?* Over the past 25 years, an
enigmatic musician named Jandek has released 35 albums on his own label; the
music has been described as sounding like "a deathbed Neil Young" and " someone
who has a completely untuned guitar and is just sort of meandering and yelling
over it." Jandek has counted among his incredibly small circle of admirers such
people as Beck, Kurt Cobain and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. What adds to his
mystique is the fact that he's steadfastly refused to grant any interviews or
give out any biographical information - making him arguably the most
underground/obscure/cult musician of the past 25 years. Director Chad
Friedrichs' documentary pieces together the few known facts about this artist's
life and music into a hauntingly beautiful portrait of loneliness,
eccentricity, and persistence in the face of almost complete indifference from
the world at large.