THIS FILM SHOULD NOT EXIST

Press release - 9 September 2022 07:00

UK 90s post-punk legends Country Teasers star in US screening premiere of documentary "THIS FILM SHOULD NOT EXIST" | Zebulon, (Los Angeles) Mon, Sep 19, 8:00 PM PDT

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A comprehensive portrait of the legendary art-punk outfit COUNTRY TEASERS from Edinburgh whose confrontational lyrical stylings, explosive creativity and commitment to deconstructionism have elicited comparisons with Pussy Galore, Joy Division, Butthole Surfers, The Fall and even satirist Jonathan Swift.

Led by eccentric frontman Ben Wallers - also known as ‘The Rebel’ - Country Teasers roared out of the 90s with a sound that has been described as ‘evil country’, a provocative, ironic noise unleashed in notoriously anarchic live shows that blur the line between drunken unprofessionalism and performance art. In an attempt to pin down their chaotic energy, This Film Should Not Exist blends old and new unreleased live footage with interviews with Wallers and former bass player and successful playwright Simon Stephens, plus an appearance from scene experts like Eric Friedl, Greg Cartwright and Jack Yarber from lo-fi garage trio the Oblivians, Tim Warren of garage-punk label Crypt Records, and Pat Morgan and the late, David R. Edwards of Datblygu, one the most influential bands in modern Welsh-language music and Wallers’ artistic heroes.

ZEBULON
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A documentary film by Nicolas Drolc, Gisella Albertini, Massimo Scocca

ITALY, FRANCE - 2020 Language: ENGLISH / 95 min

OFFICIAL SELECTION

2020

Calgary Underground Film Festival - Canada

Melbourne Documentary Film Festival - Australia

Fifigrot Festival International du Film Grolandais - Toulouse, France

Rock This Town Musical Film Fest - Pau, France

Doc’n Roll Film Festival - London, UK

Rising Sun International Film Festival - Kitakyushu, Japan

2021

F.A.M.E. Festival international de films sur la musique - Paris, France

Seeyousound International Music Film Festival - Torino, Italy

Filmfest Bremen - Bremen, Germany

MUSIC FESTIVALS + other screenings

Pop Mutations - Glasgow, UK

Gonerfest - Memphis, USA

Rencontres du cinéma documentaire - Bagnères de Bigorre, France

Locomotion Festival - Nancy, France

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