[WATCHED: April 17, 2020] Chunky Shrapnel
In 2020, the ever productive King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard released a soundtrack and a live documentary/concert film.
NME explains:
Chunky Shrapnel was supposed to have premiered earlier this month in two sold-out screenings at the Astor Theatre in the band’s stomping grounds of Melbourne. But the coronavirus pandemic put paid to that, so the movie will now premiere for 24 hours on Vimeo, April 17-18. Stewart promises that plans for wider distribution – including a theatrical release in cinemas around the world – are in the works.
Primary filming was done by John Angus Stewart. In that NME interview he says
because I was shooting on film, and you don’t really know what you’ve got until you’ve got it processed, which takes a few weeks. I was shooting things, in a way, blindly.
With documentaries about musicians or even about filmmakers, a lot of the time, to give it a narrative thread, they pry into artists’ personalities or whatnot, trying to extract this deeper narrative to make it feel like a three-act film.
But to me, I think [King Gizzard’s] performance and their music is so fuckin’ interesting that you don’t have to do that.
If you like this music, you’ll get an insight into who these people are. But I didn’t want to frame them as these godlike figures, because to me that’s kind of bullshit. They’re just normal dudes.
So what’s the film like? (more…)
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