(Heisser Sommer © Herbert Kroiss)
Starting 3 June, the Beursschouwburg will be continuing its annual tradition of inviting you to its top floor to close the season with the Out Loud! Festival. On the roof terrace, you will find yourself a step closer to the gods of (film) music. From noon to 2 pm, you can eat sandwiches and enjoy the views across Brussels, while in the evening you can let yourself be enchanted by alternating concerts and films. The music will be provided by the rising star of Brussels R&B Billie Kawende, funk prince Stijn, and the sweltering Geile Gleuf Maddefakkers, among others. The film section is focusing on the Swinging Sixties, when music made pop culture boom, becoming the soundtrack for a new generation.
Eight musical films provide a kaleidoscopic view of the turbulent decade. Monterey Pop, the recording of the first multi-day rock festival is a unique period document on the burgeoning Summer of Love, with infamous appearances by Country Joe & The Fish, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, and others, filmed in the famous cinéma-vérité style by D.A. Pennebaker. Pennebaker also directed the inimitable Don’t Look Back in which he is a fly on the wall during Bob Dylan’s tour around England in 1965. It made him the godfather of the rockumentary. Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night, named after one of Ringo Starr’s aphorisms, shows the Beatlemania for the young Fab Four. And the Beatles automatically bring the Stones to mind: Charlie Is My Darling, recently remastered and released on DVD to celebrate their fiftieth birthday, the film follows the young rockers after their first number one hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”.
Wide-eyed and Out Loud!
(Magic Trip)
The French TV film Anna by Pierre Kornalik is less well-known. It features music and acting by Serge Gainsbourg, who appears beside Anna Karina and Marianne Faithful. We see a different perspective in Heisser Sommer, a cult classic from the GDR that is clearly inspired by American teen movies from the period. Escapism for a socialist system that was torn to shreds. Magic Trip treats the LSD-suffused road trip of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, freebooters inspired by Kerouac’s On the Road. Message to Love, finally, reports on the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, the British three-day festival where iconic names from the period – Hendrix, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis – drew huge crowds, but where hippy culture discovered its limits. O yes, there is also a dress code: better wide-eyed than narrow-minded.
Out Loud! 3 > 29/6, gratis/gratuit/free, Beursschouwburg, rue A. Ortsstraat 20-28, Brussel/Bruxelles, 02-550.03.50, www.beursschouwburg.be
The French TV film Anna by Pierre Kornalik is less well-known. It features music and acting by Serge Gainsbourg, who appears beside Anna Karina and Marianne Faithful. We see a different perspective in Heisser Sommer, a cult classic from the GDR that is clearly inspired by American teen movies from the period. Escapism for a socialist system that was torn to shreds. Magic Trip treats the LSD-suffused road trip of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, freebooters inspired by Kerouac’s On the Road. Message to Love, finally, reports on the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, the British three-day festival where iconic names from the period – Hendrix, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis – drew huge crowds, but where hippy culture discovered its limits. O yes, there is also a dress code: better wide-eyed than narrow-minded.
Out Loud! 3 > 29/6, gratis/gratuit/free, Beursschouwburg, rue A. Ortsstraat 20-28, Brussel/Bruxelles, 02-550.03.50, www.beursschouwburg.be
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