Presented by The Underground Cinema, Sound & Vision: A Season of Films About Music is a season of music-oriented films featuring legendary live shows, iconic documentaries and cult classics, including Modern Films titles Keyboard Fantasies, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda and Sisters with Transistors.
Keyboard Fantasies
Directed by Posy Dixon, 2019
Emerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, transgender, septuagenarian musical genius Beverly Glenn-Copeland finally finds his place in the world. Keyboard Fantasies tells the tale of this mystical musician as he embarks on his first international tour at the age of 74.
Screening dates – May 1, 2, 3, 6, 7
Sisters with Transistors
Directed by Lisa Rovner, 2020
The story of electronic music’s female pioneers, including Delia Darbyshire, Laurie Anderson and Suzanne Ciani – composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies.
Screening dates – May 22, 23, 24, 27, 28
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Directed by Stephen Nomura Schible, 2017
An intimate documentary chronicling the legendary composer’s life, focusing on his creation of the album async following a cancer diagnosis, his activism against nuclear power, and his career spanning four decades.
Screening dates – May 29, 30, 31, June 3, 4