The 2nd Chirp Music Film Festival
CHIRP is proud to present the return of its music film festival! Featuring seven music documentaries and concert films, the second CHIRP Music Film Festival has something for every kind of music lover!
Schedule:
1:00 PM - Joan Baez: I Am a Noise, Dir: Miri Navasky, Maeve O’Boyle, Karen O’Connor; 2023 (113 mins.)
Memories can bring “diamonds and rust,” and in this deep and meditative documentary, Joan Baez has an entire storage unit full of them! Using unreleased home movies, artwork, diaries, therapy tapes, and audio recordings, I Am a Noise takes an honest look back at the sixty-year career of the Queen of Folk. Not only surveying her career as a folk singer and Civil Rights activist, but also her personal battles with panic attacks and familial abuse.
4:00 PM - Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, Dir: Sophie Fiennes; 2017 (115 mins.)
Don’t expect a proper retrospective from an artist who once boasted “I only move forwards, never backwards, darling!” Part biographical documentary and part concert film, Bloodlight and Bami captures two worlds of the iconoclastic singer: devoted Jamaican daughter and multifaceted artist. Weaved in between are live performances that are—like Jones herself—visually thrilling and audibly rousing. Pull up to the bumper, baby—you won’t want to miss this film
8:00 PM - Urgh! A Music War, Dir: Derek Burbidge; 1981 (96 mins.)
In the early 80s some just wanted their MTV, while others craved an all-out war. Urgh! A Music War isn’t exactly a “Battle of the Bands” competition as much as it is a time capsule smorgasbord of every influential genre of the decade—Punk, New Wave, Techno—splattered together in a series of live acts from across the US and Europe. Featuring unforgettable performances from The Cramps, Devo, The Go-Go’s, Gary Numan, Oingo Boingo, The Police and MANY others, this concert film will have you out of your seat and moshing down the aisles. Live it…’cause you can’t stop it!
