PAUL
SIMON’S ‘GRACELAND’ AND THE LEGENDARY RODRIGUEZ - UNCOVERED
On Sunday 1st July, DocHouse are showing a double bill of two of the year’s finest
music docs – UNDER AFRICAN SKIES immerses you in the unmistakable sounds and
rhythms of Paul Simon’s landmark album ‘Graceland’, and makes a perfect partner
to a special preview screening of upcoming release SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN,
which follows the trail of mysterious, captivating 70s folkster Rodriguez.
5pm: SEARCHING FOR
SUGAR MAN is the gripping story of enigmatic American folk singer Rodriguez,
who commanded one of the largest fan-bases in 1970s South Africa. With his
Dylan-esque, but psychedelic, folk songs he enjoyed overwhelming success
overseas but remained utterly unaware of it, and vanished into obscurity. Wild
rumours circulated for decades about his fate, until two men set out to reveal
the man behind the myth.
8pm: UNDER AFRICAN
SKIES charts Paul Simon’s journey to South Africa to record the iconic ‘Graceland’
album at the time of the UN’s anti-apartheid cultural boycott. Now, twenty-five
years on, he explores the impact of this choice in an emotionally stirring
reunion tour. At once a celebration of one of the greatest and
most influential records ever made and a profound questioning of the place
where art and politics meet, ‘Under African Skies’ is filled with the
music of South Africa, including astonishing archive footage from the Graceland tour
featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela.
Between films the ‘South
African BBQ’ will be firing up a traditional South African braai, replete with
boerewors and springboks burgers.
WHEN: Sunday 1 July, 5pm
WHERE: Tricycle Cinema, Kilburn, NW6 7JR
TICKETS: £9.50 (single bill) £15 (double bill)