Instrument (film)

Instrument is a documentary film directed by Jem Cohen about the band Fugazi. Cohens relationship with band member Ian MacKaye extends back to the 1970s when the two met in high school in Washington, D.C.. The film takes its title from the Fugazi song of the same name, from their 1993 album, In on the Kill Taker.

I did feel that there were a lot of people that either didnt have access to the band or had something of a misconception of what they were like. I wanted to address those issues to some degree, but what I really wanted to do was just capture musicmaking and try to make something that felt, visually, like music, and something where the music was inextricably tied in with the moving pictures.One such misconception is shared in a scene where drummer Brendan Canty tells his bandmates how his sisters boyfriend believes that Fugazi lives in a house together without heat and subsisting on a steady diet of nothing but rice. Cohen has also said that one of the reasons why I work with Fugazi and they work with me is that we enjoy traveling through this madness. Its what they write songs about and its what I try to document in my films. ........

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