Director: Jonathan Caouette, All Tomorrow's People
UK 2009, 82 min.

The ultimate mix tape from a festival you'll wish you knew

When 'All Tomorrow's Parties' is reviewed as a DIY concert film, this is to be taken literally. The film, which portrays the cult festival by the same name, is an intoxicating patchwork of images recorded with everything from video cameras to mobile phones, with Vincent Moon and Jonathan Caouette as the artistic masterminds in the editing suite. The concept for the festival is quite simple: get a band to unite its favourite musicians at a holiday camp during the low season and add a music-loving and laid-back audience. Let them jam, climb up in trees and play concerts together all weekend, and you end up having what Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore describes as "the ultimate mix tape". The film is an eclectic blend of recordings with and by artists such as Portishead, Grinderman, Mogwai and Slint, and it is impossible not to be enchanted by ATP's wonderful world, where one both lives in huts with an ocean view and plays mini-golf with one's biggest indie heroes.