Fugs Film! Portraits
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Canadian Premiere
Dubbed the “Rolling Stones of the Underground,” The Fugs were a proto-punk band in New York whose combination of high-minded literariness and taboo-embracing contempt for social norms made them one of the strangest acts of the 1960s. From their origins as beatnik poets and bookstore owners with questionable musical talent, to their cult status as genuine performance artists pushing the boundaries of taste, The Fugs were the living embodiment of sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll — so much so that an FBI file refers to them as “the filthiest and most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive.”
Unearthing archival footage not just of the Fugs but the larger 1960s counterculture scene, director Chuck Smith turns to interviews with underground icons, artists, and musicians like Robert and Aline Crumb, Penny Arcade, and Lenny Kaye as he traces the band’s offbeat origin story. A celebration of rebellion, poetry, and life itself, Fugs Film! is a raucous, irreverent chronicle of The Fugs’ legacy.
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Dubbed the “Rolling Stones of the Underground,” The Fugs were a proto-punk band in New York whose combination of high-minded literariness and taboo-embracing contempt for social norms made them one of the strangest acts of the 1960s. From their origins as beatnik poets and bookstore owners with questionable musical talent, to their cult status as genuine performance artists pushing the boundaries of taste, The Fugs were the living embodiment of sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll — so much so that an FBI file refers to them as “the filthiest and most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive.”
Unearthing archival footage not just of the Fugs but the larger 1960s counterculture scene, director Chuck Smith turns to interviews with underground icons, artists, and musicians like Robert and Aline Crumb, Penny Arcade, and Lenny Kaye as he traces the band’s offbeat origin story. A celebration of rebellion, poetry, and life itself, Fugs Film! is a raucous, irreverent chronicle of The Fugs’ legacy.
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