Live Forever

The documentary is about a wave of culture in Britain in the middle of the nineties. The sudden worldwide reach of bands like Oasis and the government’s cultural campaign of the time both fed that wave. Pop music was at the heart of the idea, and before long Britpop was being spoken of as a movement. Oasis, Blur, Pulp, The Verve and many others rose in the charts together. The question the film asks is plain: was this really a phenomenon, or was it a marketing job. Noel and Liam Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker and Damon Albarn make up the body of the film with what they say. The account remembers the period and puts it on trial at the same time. John Dower’s eighty two minute British documentary was completed in 2003.