FURTHER SHOWINGS AND LIVE APPEARANCES TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT SEPTEMBER
Photo credit: Annie Sprinkle
Upcoming Showings (Physical)
September 9—Charlottesville, VA—Violet Crown
September 12—Louisville, KY—Speed Art Museum
September 13—Nashville, TN—Belcourt
Live Appearances
September 7—Harrisburg, PA—Stage on Herr (with Retrovirus)
September 8—Pittsburgh, PA—Preserving Underground (with Retrovirus)
September 9—Canton, OH—Femme Fest Buzz Bin (with Retrovirus)
September 10—Chicago, IL—Break Kitchen (with Retrovirus)
September 11—Indianapolis, IN—Healer (with Retrovirus)
September 12—Louisville, KY—Speed Museum (improv)
September 13—Newport, KY—Southgate House (with Retrovirus)
September 14—Asheville, NC—Fleetwoods (with Retrovirus)
September 15—Charlottesville, VA—Champion Brewing Co (with Retrovirus)
September 16—Washington, DC—Black Cat (with Retrovirus)
September 21—New York, NY— Saint Vitus (with Retrovirus)
Lydia Lunch – The War is Never Over
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“Beth B’s documentary on the singer/provocateur/No Wave icon looks, sounds and feels like a
Lydia Lunch song: raw, loud, unfiltered and unflinching.”
“As short, anarchic and explosive as a punk song, Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over remains true to the genre in its approach to the story of the No Wave queen.”
August 26, 2021— Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over, the first career-spanning documentary retrospective of the artist and spoken-word poet Lydia Lunch, will be available on DVD and on demand August 31 in addition to continued nation-wide screenings in both theaters and virtual cinemas through KinoMarquee.com. Directed by prolific No Wave filmmaker Beth B, the film opened at New York’s IFC Center on June 30 and has since continued to garner widespread critical acclaim. Lunch is currently on tour to support the release in select cities. “Refreshingly, the documentary isn’t a retrospective of Lunch’s former glory, but a celebration of her still-active artistry, looking at her band Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, her cinematic collaborations with Richard Kern, and her recent Retrovirus tour. After nearly five decades on the stage, she shows no signs of waning, and exudes a gravitas earned over time.”
“A bracing reminder that sexual self-defense can take many forms…it chronicles
how Lunch embarked on a series of musical reinventions. Viewers will marvel at a
woman who, at 60, seems just as fierce as she was 40 years ago.”
 “Beth B’s films take you deep into the darkness of the human psyche…Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over may be her most compelling and powerful film yet.”
“It’s a treasure trove that long-time fans will love.”
“It’s a treasure trove that long-time fans will love.”
“A wild and impactful documentary…Portrait of a punk priestess, through its feminist
commitment, its avant-garde music and its nihilistic poetry.”
Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over traces Lunch’s beginnings in the late 1970s New York City downtown scene with her band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, a central pillar of the No Wave music movement, and follows her storied career as an artist and legendary spoken-word poet – touching on her many collaborations with a diverse collective of artists, writers and musicians including Alan Vega (Suicide), Hubert Selby Jr., and Nick Cave and Sonic Youth. The film blends interviews with Lydia and those in her circle with archival footage of 1970’s bands and photographs of New York City along with contemporary on-stage performances by Lunch.
“Lydia Lunch was 19 and I was 23 when we met in the late ‘70s New York music/film/art scene and brought our radical visions to the underground where we broke boundaries, simultaneously shocking and enticing our audiences with our uncensored music and films,” says Beth B in her director’s statement. “Fast forward to 2017, as I watched the ever brash and luminous Lydia Lunch performing with her extraordinary band, RETROVIRUS, I realized that I needed to make the definitive documentary about [her].”
Beth B is an award-winning director of independent feature-length documentary and narrative films whose career focuses on recasting and redefining concepts relating to the mind, the body and women’s issues. Controversial and political in approach and content, her recent films have been shown at venues including the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art along with festivals including Sundance, Berlin Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, SXSW and Locarno Film Festival. She has also served on the competition juries at the Sundance and Toronto Film Festivals.
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