At the matinée
By Giangiacomo De Stefano
Synopsis
At the Matinee provides an account, through Walter Schreifels and his music, of a world that existed in New York’s Lower East Side during the 80s and has since disappeared.
Through the memories of Walter Schreifels and his music, AT THE MATINEE tells the unique story of New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1980s — a place and time that became synonymous with hardcore music, counter culture and defiant youth. Thirty years later, Schreifels continues to write and perform music that takes inspiration from his original hardcore roots in the Lower East Side. As such, he will be our on-screen guide to the neighborhood and the musicians who shaped it, helping us journey back in time to the pavements outside of CBGBs where every Sunday afternoon hardcore kids, skinheads, and punks lined the street waiting for one of the now infamous matinee concerts of the late 1980s. Through Schreifels’ unique first person lens, we will meet a motley cast of characters who were also there and influential in the scene, painting an unmatched portrait of that time and how it still influences their creative lives to this day. AT THE MATINEE will also take us to Germany (Berlin) and Italy (Bologna), places that are important to Schreifels’ life as a musician, to examine how hardcore and its legacy has had a footprint in other parts of the world to this day.
Info
Sponsored by: Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Piemonte Doc Film Fund e Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
Distribution by: La Sarraz Distribuzione
First screening: 15 giugno 2019 - Biografilm 2019
Artistic Spec
Produced by: Alessandro Borrelli
Associate producer: Sonne Film
Director Giangiacomo De Stefano
Story writer Giangiacomo De Stefano
Editing: Mattia Biancucci
Cast/Interview:
Con la partecipazione speciale di Walter Schreifels
Tech Spec
Running time: 85
Original language: inglese
Subtitle: italiani
Status: Progetto chiuso
Countries of producers: Italia
