> PARALLEL PLANES Portuguese Premiere @ Indie Lisboa Festival 2019
2 -12/05 / Infos coming soon / Q&A after Screening with director Nicole Wegner
> PARALLEL PLANES Hamburg Premiere @ DAVE Festival
Thu 8 November @ 9pm @3001 / Q&A after Screening with director Nicole Wegner
>> http://www.unerhoert-filmfest.de/parallel-planes/
> PARALLEL PLANES Berlin Premiere @ Internet Explorer
Sat 3 November @ 8pm @Internet Explorer / Q&A after Screening with director Nicole Wegner
>> https://InternetExplorer/events/ParallelPlanes
> PARALLEL PLANES Dresden Premiere @ DAVE Festival
Tue 23 October @ 9:30pm @Thalia Kino / Q&A after Screening with director Nicole Wegner
>> https://www.dave-festival.de/parallel-planes/
> PARALLEL PLANES Romanian Premiere @ DOKStation
Fri 14 September @ 7pm @Apollo 111 / Q&A after Screening with director Nicole Wegner
>> http://dokstation.ro/filme/parallel-planes/ >> DOK STATION TRAILER
> PARALLEL PLANES Cologne Premiere @ SeeTheSound Festival
Thu 23 August @ 8pm @Fritz Thyssen Stiftung / Open Air / Q&A after Screening with director Nicole Wegner
>> https://www.soundtrackcologne.de/Parallel-Planes
> PARALLEL PLANES Australian Premiere @ Revelation Perth Film Fest
Come to our Australian Premiere at Revelation Perth Filmfest. Director Nicole will be attending for a Q&A and panel.
Sun 8 July @ 2.10pm @Luna Leederville + Q&A / Mon 9 July @ 8.45pm @Luna Leederville + Q&A / Sun 15 July @ 8pm @Luna Leederville
MAGNOLIA LIVE TALK SHOW: SAT 7, 6:00 pm @ Rhubarb Record Store
PANEL “FILMMAKERS APPROACH THE MUSIC DOCUMENTARY”: MON 9, 5:00 pm @ Luna Leederville
>>http://www.revelationfilmfest.org/film-information-new.php?filmId=784
> PARALLEL PLANES European Premiere @ Sheffield Doc/Fest
Come to our European Premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sat 9 June @ 15.00 @Abbeydale Picture House / Tue 12 June @ 18.00 @Curzon Cinema 1
>> https://www.sheffdocfest.com/films/6394
> PARALLEL PLANES American Premiere @ Chicago Underground Film Festival
We can happily announce that “Parallel Planes” will have it’s US-premiere at the legendary Chicago Underground Film Festival.
06/08 // @ Logan Theatre // 7pm + Q&A
> Review of PARALLEL PLANES @ Choices
03/05/17 Review Choices Cologne
> International Premiere “PARALLEL PLANES” @ Urban Nomad Film Fest Taipei
Folks! If you are around in Taiwan come to Taipei and join our International premiere @ Urban Nomad Film Fest!
The film screens at Wonderful Theater and has a Q&A afterwards with director Nicole Wegner.
5/20 (六/Sun) 17:40 + Q&A
5/22 (二/Tue) 21:15 + Q&A
Check out the trailer with Chinese subtitles!!
> NRW Premiere “PARALLEL PLANES” @ International Women’s Film Festival Cologne
26.04. // @ Altes Pfandhaus // 20:30h (+ live show UMMN) + Q&A
> 28/11/17 Parallel Planes just won an Audience Award/3rd price of the Soundwatch Berlin Music Film Festival!
> 07/11/17 Parallel Planes won the title “DOK Buster” at DOK Leipzig because of high audience demand.
> 31/10/17 World Premiere at DOK Leipzig 2017.
> 30/10/17 Intro Magazin gave a review on Parallel Planes: Review Intro Magazin
> 28/10/17 Deutschlandfunk Corso interviewed director Nicole Wegner: Interview Deutschlandfunk
> 10/10/17 Parallel Planes is nominated for the Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize.
> World Premiere @ DOK Leipzig 2017
We can proudly let you know that PARALLEL PLANES will have its world premiere at the DOK Leipzig Festival on 31st of October. Come around and celebrate with us here:
DI, 31.10.2017 – 22:15 – Cinémathèque Leipzig
MI, 01.11.2017 – 15:30 – Passage Kinos Wintergarten
CATALOGUE TEXT
This film pays homage to the American DIY spirit and the diversity of the US musical landscape outside the commercial music industry. While many other music films never make it beyond hero worship, director Nicole Wegner consistently maintains eye level with her twelve interview partners, who include Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), Michael Gira (Swans) and Valentine Falcon (Get Hustle). What they all have in common is that they couldn’t care less about marketing strategies and target group orientation as they gleefully hack the music industry and play by their own rules. Though the film shows extremely diverse musical styles, there is a general agreement to see the DIY idea as the most important legacy of punk and the starting point of self-empowerment and resistance.
Like a certified mixtape, “Parallel Planes” combines old and new songs, really clever thoughts about making music and personal insights to generate a narrative that resembles an open building kit of ideas from which everyone who wants to take things into their own hands can help themselves. Using gaudy cut-up elements and references to video clip aesthetics, the film develops a drive which might even lead the viewer to rush out of the cinema with a project of their own in mind and simply start on it …
Luc-Carolin Ziemann
Nominated for Goethe-Institut Documentary Film Prize