X-Ray Audio: The Documentary (2016)
• February 11th, 2016 • 0h 14min
Documentary
Overview
Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Giving blood every week to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, one bootlegger Rudy Fuchs cuts banned music onto such discarded x-rays to be sold on street corners by shady dealers. It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Psychiatry in Russia
Released on: 1955-01-01
Documentary
In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was...
With Love from Truman
Released on: 1966-01-01
Documentary
At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction n...
Contradict
Released on: 2020-01-30
Documentary, Music
When two friends collect money for the so-called "suffering in America" in the streets of Accra, is ...
Pyramid
Released on: 2014-10-18
Documentary
Pyramid is a single screen work on Abraham Maslow's theory on the hierarchy of human needs filmed th...
Hakenkreuz am Stahlhelm
Released on: 1933-01-01
Documentary
The film shows the various stages of the Stahlhelm's integration into the NSDAP and the Third Reich.
Das Buch der Deutschen
Released on: 1936-01-01
Documentary
The film shows the manufacture of a luxury edition of "Mein Kampf" on real parchment, handwritten.
Schutzwall
Released on: 1965-01-01
Documentary
The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The n...
Berlin - Hauptstadt der DDR I
Released on: 1970-01-01
Documentary
"I'm walking through my city...", sings a cheerful pop singer. She fervently praises the new metropo...
i.Mirror by China Tracy
Released on: 2007-06-10
Music, Documentary, Fantasy
Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wist...
Russian Close-Up
Released on: 1957-01-01
Documentary
Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ...
Namibia: Cuba’s Female Boxing Revolution
Released on: 2016-05-20
Documentary
The short film captures the tireless battle of Namibia Flores Rodriguez, the only known female boxer...
The Portrait
Released on: 2012-10-15
Documentary
It’s the opportunity of a lifetime for artist Phil Richards, who’s been commissioned to create Canad...
KCBT
Released on: 2015-01-01
Documentary
KCBT explores the shifting urban landscape and rapid economic growth of Hanoi, Vietnam through stenc...
Fires of Kuwait
Released on: 1992-06-09
Documentary
After Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait Oil wells lit up, teams from all over the world fought those fir...
Green Day: Bullet in a Bible
Released on: 2005-11-15
Documentary, Music
Bullet in a Bible documents one of the two biggest shows that Green Day have performed in their care...
The City’s Unknown
Released on: 1958-01-01
Documentary
The life, the problems, the hopes of the ragazzi of the suburbs of Rome. Ignored by the city, these ...
Le Sourire
Released on: 1960-05-01
Documentary
In the year that Cannes Film Festival handed out awards to Federico Fellini for La Dolce Vita, L'Avv...
Die Seehunde
Released on: 1934-09-14
Documentary
Short film about seals, the hunt for them and how they are processed afterwards.
Besuch des Zaren auf der russischen Botschaft
Released on: 1896-12-03
Documentary
The Tsar visits the Russian embassy