Official Trailer for 2000s Music Scene Doc ‘Meet Me within the Rest room’
by Alex Billington
October 7, 2022
Supply: YouTube
“We felt like we had been going to take over the world.” Utopia has revealed a trailer for a documentary movie titled Meet Me within the Rest room, which initially premiered on the 2022 Sundance Movie Pageant earlier this yr. Most docs about punk or rock scenes are about how loopy it was within the 80s or 90s. However this one goes proper into the brand new millennium to inform extra tales of bands!! Meet Me within the Rest room is an immersive journey by way of the New York music scene of the early 2000s. A brand new technology kick-started a musical rebirth for New York Metropolis that reverberated world wide. Impressed by Lizzy Goodman’s bestselling ebook of the identical title, administrators Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace (Shut Up and Play the Hits) is an exploration of delusion and music, time and place that tells the story of how a brand new technology kickstarted a musical rebirth for New York Metropolis that reverberated world wide. Combining by no means earlier than seen footage, intimate audio interviews and a visceral sense of time & place, Meet Me in The Rest room is a uncooked & genuine evocation of “a flashbulb second, at first modified.” This appears prefer it’s price a watch, even when it is not all fairly.
Full trailer (+ poster) for Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace’s doc Meet Me within the Rest room, on YouTube:
An immersive archival journey by way of the explosive NYC music scene of the early 2000s. Set in opposition to the backdrop of 9/11 and a world unaware of the seismic political, technological and cultural shifts about to happen, Meet Me within the Rest room, tells the story of the final nice romantic age of Rock’n’Roll by way of the prism of a handful of period defining bands; The Storkes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol. The documentary immerses you within the pre-social media, pre-gentrification world of New York, because it examines the lives of key figures from every band, the transformation of town, and the cultural forces that formed it. Meet Me within the Rest room is directed by filmmakers Dylan Southern & Will Lovelace, each administrators of the docs No Distance Left to Run and Shut Up and Play the Hits beforehand, plus some music movies. Co-directed by Andrew Cross, Vivienne Perry, Sam Rice-Edwards. This initially premiered on the 2022 Sundance Movie Pageant earlier this yr. Utopia will debut Meet Me within the Rest room in choose US theaters (NY & LA) on November 4th, 2022, then on VOD beginning November eighth this fall. Go to the official website.
