Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback

Monks The Transatlantic Feedback is a 2006 film directed by Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios about the seminal GermanAmerican beat band The Monks. The film was produced by Play Loud Productions and shot on location in the USA and Germany between 1997 and 2002. In 2008 the filmmakers obtained the German TV Oscar, the Adolf Grimme Awards.

The film was well received by critics. Chris Morris of The Hollywood Reporter named it a penetrating and loving documentary. Dennis Harvey of Variety praised that Helmers do a vivid job etching the creatively fervid times, with an editing style whose dynamism echoes that of Monk music. New York critic and John Cage expert Richard Kostelanetz compared it with the documentary film Comedian Harmonists 1976 by Eberhard Fechner Monks The Transatlantic Feedback vividly recalls several American military veterans who in the early 1960s formed in Germany a shortlived protopunk rock group calling themselves the Monks and cutting their hair appropriately. Much like Eberhard Fechners great documentary about the Comedian Harmonists, the film, through individual interviews made decades later, neatly documents not just how they came together and fell apart, but the remarkable performances they did in between. This film is moving, informative, and unforgettable. In conjunction with the film play loud productions initiated a double CD tribute record by the title Silver Monk Time a tribute to the monks. This record served as financial support to the film and was released officially on October 23, 2006 at the famous Volksbhne in Berlin Germany. At the same event the film was premiered to a full house. play loud also had invited The Monks and some special guests from Silver Monk Time. For The Monks it was their first live performance in Germany for almostyears. After the film screening The Monks were received with standing ovations by a frenetic audience. Special guest musicians Mark E. Smith The Fall, The Raincoats, Schorsch Kamerun Goldenen Zitronen and Peter Hein Fehlfarben celebrated together with The Monks their comeback. Among the audience were also some of the old collaborators, such as, Walther Niemann, Wolfgang Gluszczewski and Jimmy Bowien. ........

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