Thu, Dec 11 / 9 pm
Fri - Sun, Dec 12 -14 / 7 pm
Directed by Mitchell Kezin
2013, Canada, 94 min
Thursday, Dec 11 and Friday, Dec 12 screenings will be introduced by Stu Reid (CKUW’s Twang Trust host and creator of an annual compilation CD of rare Christmas music)
In the spirit of Alan Zweig’s Vinyl, Jingle Bell Rocks! follows Christmas music junkie Mitchell Kezin as he unveils 12 of his most cherished, alternative Christmas songs. Hitting the road to uncover the stories inside the grooves, Mitchell hangs with his holiday heroes, musicians, deejays, record execs, radio hosts, composers, critics and fellow collectors, who share his passion. NYC’s hip hop archivist and music writer Bill Adler, Chicago rock promoter Andy Cirzan and LA Water Works laborer Tim Sewell are three of the world’s legendary Christmas music fanatics who will open up their hearts and their astonishing collections. It is a trippy, cinematic sleigh ride into the strange and sublime universe of alternative and underground Christmas music, featuring The Flaming Lips, Run-DMC, The Free Design, Low, Miles Davis & Bob Dorough, Clarence Carter, John Waters, Akim & The Teddy Vann Prod. Co., The Mighty Sparrow, A Girl Called Eddy, El Vez and many more.
Plays with:
Home Cooked Music / Dir. Mike Maryniuk, 2014, Canada, 8:33 min / A terrific character portrait of Manitoba retired machinist Lorne Collie who after a near-death experience, started making ingenious stringed instruments from unlikely materials like old rakes, bent pitchforks and moose antlers.
