CAN: The Documentary

Overview

The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1999

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, German

Countries

Austria, United Kingdom

Production

DoRo Productions

Cast

Malcolm Mooney,Shirley Karoli,Michael Karoli,Irmin Schmidt,Holger Czukay,Jaki Liebezeit,Kris Needs

Director

Hannes Rossacher,Rudi Dolezal

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt2671330