All Tomorrow's Parties

All Tomorrow’s Parties is a music festival. It has been running for years. The documentary tells its history. There was no ordinary crew behind it. Most of the footage comes from the people who attended. Some of it was shot by the musicians themselves. There is Super8, there are camcorders, there are mobile phones. All of it is cut together, and the edit sets the formats against each other on purpose. The festival is held at a holiday camp. The film opens with images of that same camp in the nineteen sixties, when a very different crowd was there. Stage footage sits next to what happens behind the chalets. It premiered at SXSW in 2009. Jarvis Cocker, Daniel Johnston and Stuart Braithwaite appear in the eighty two minute film, a British production Jonathan Caouette finished in 2009.