Screening: Cafe Treece Friday 6:00pm

Nicole Eckenroad
freeRADlab

Title: Andi Sex Gang and the Way Bastard Art Could Have Been

Bastard Art, directed by Vince Corkadel, follows Gothic musician, Andi Sex Gang’s, musical timeline. It is a chronological documentary that gives an account of the many breakups of the Sex Gang Children. The film highlights indie struggle and suggests that Andi Sex Gang and his children have been ignored by mainstream music culture.

Andi Sex Gang believes that music should be “a free and fluid thing,” which to me, gives reason NOT to work chronologically. The film finds the need to stick to this rigid timeline, and therefore loses the opportunity to reach a climax – a payoff for the interesting subject of “The way goth could have been.” Instead, the end works like a Where Are They Now, summing up simply that. Bastard Art could have stood to amplify the conflict between big labels and little musicians… and it maybe could have used an external mic and a manual focus.

That being said, I’m loving that it put non-mainstream music in the spotlight for 95 minutes, and I’ll probably keep thinking about not only the way goth could have been, but how music could have developed differently because of Andi Sex Gang.

Movie site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtm5K_19ibw
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Language: Queens English