1. An evening with Lydia Lunch
There are many things very worth seeing at the Soundtrack Festival, but one of them is uncertain if and when you will have the opportunity to repeat: an unexpected Israeli visit by the punk emcee Lydia Lunch, who was there during all the high and low moments of the New York scene in the 70s, for the screening of A documentary film about her life, which will also be accompanied by a rare Spoken Word performance by Lunch. This is a true revolutionary, who insisted for almost 50 years on operating only on the margins and became a real cult figure – And here you can also read an interview with her from the last time she visited Israel.
Hall 1, Tuesday (15.11) 9:30 p.m
2. From MTV to Spotify: a panel with Toby Aimees
Year by year we find ourselves deeper and deeper in nostalgia for the nineties. Although lately at the same time there is also a wave of nostalgia for the 2000s, which is really illogical because we were definitely adults then – so it surely can’t be that long ago – but maybe we are in a time when you can be nostalgic for everything, certainly for the hyper-colored days of The early years of MTV. Precisely for this period, a panel will be dedicated with the director Tommy Ames, remembered as a legendary host on the channel at the time and the man behind the European edition of the program Alternative Nation, together with a host of interesting names from the local industry: the artistic director of Universal Music in Israel Mittal Shabach, the director of Galgaltz Nadav Ravid and the journalist ( Also with us) and the musician (Sharon Kantor).
Hall 2, Wednesday (16.11), 5:00 p.m
3. “Neptune Frost”
Do you like dashes? You’ll die for this “cyberpunk-queer-madhouse-musical-African creation” set in a village in Rwanda, which doesn’t stop it from being incredibly sci-fi and terrifyingly musical. Still not convinced? Then we’ll tell you that one of its creators is the brilliant rapper-poet-artist Spoken Sol Williams. Before the screening, there will be a lecture by our former music reporter Uri Zer Aviv, who also previously interviewed Williams for this site.
Hall 4, Wednesday (16.11), 6:30 p.m
4. “Eurithmics: A Brand New Day”
Honestly, we are just as confused as you will be in a few seconds, when we reveal to you what we ourselves only recently discovered: it is a musical docu about a tour of the wonderful synthpop band Eurythmyx in Japan – on stage, backstage and on the road between shows, created by 1987 (that is, at the height of their glory)… Amos Gitai. We are also not entirely sure how Amos Gitai is actually the person who set out on this mission, but fortunately after the film there will be a video call with him where you can ask all the relevant questions.
Hall 2, Wednesday (16.11), 6:30 p.m
5. “Serge Tankian: truth to power” (Wednesday, 11.16)
If you happen to underestimate all the popular and semi-popular metal that was on MTV2 around 2001, you are right in most cases, but definitely not in the case of System of a Down, who were always political, smart, bizarre and above all much more musical than all the bad bands they happened to be thrown with , in the eyes of some of the public, to the same cauldron – while their members sang about beatings and fucking, SOAD dealt with the Armenian genocide and hippie legend Avi Hoffman. “Truth to Power” is a documentary that accompanies the band’s brilliant vocalist, Serge Tankian, in his personal, musical and political life.
Hall 1, Wednesday (16.11) 19:00
6. “This City: A Rap Movie”
Remember “This City”, the detective rap musical that seemed like a local craze in Tel Aviv – until the group that created it (the Victor Jackson show) grew out of it a star of national magnitude (yes, that’s Jimbo J, we’re talking about Jimbo J)? It’s been several years since “This City” went off the stage (the presentation of the sequel, “High School of Fulfillment”, did not completely reproduce the success) but the group behind it still did not give up on the long and ambitious journey of this project to the big screen as well. The film is not yet finished, so we will screen parts of it under the definition “work in progress”, but wouldn’t you want to be there and see how it happens?
Hall 3, Thursday (17.11) 18:00
7. “All the streets are quiet” + a reunion of “Black Business” (Thursday, 17.11)
With all due respect to “All the streets are quiet”, a documentary about the New York rap scene in the late eighties and early nineties, the big show here is the reunion of the legendary “black business”: Kwame and Liron Thani, who will moderate a festive panel with Sima Nun, the rapper AG and the music producer Smiley . They will talk about “black business”, the cultural connections between music, street art, punk (Sima Nunn was the lead singer of the punk rock band Not on Tour before she started rapping) and much more.
Hall 3, Thursday (17.11) 21:45
Soundtrack Festival, 11.15-11.19. Tel Aviv Cinematech, 3 Shaprintsak