Director: Lasse Hoile
UK, Danmark 2009, 77 min.

Tarkovsky meets Texas chainsaw massacre in a magical portrait of Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson

"Art is an extension of yourself", says Steven Wilson, who is best known as the frontman of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. The man behind several of the band's music videos, Danish Lasse Hoile, who has also made works for Opeth and Dream Theater, follows the reflective Brit during the release of the 2008 solo album, which has also given this sensationally visionary debut feature its title. With gloomy, existential images, which look as if they are influenced by everything from Tarkvosky to 70s splatter films and The Knife's visual universe, 'Insurgentes' portrays Wilson as a complex musician, human being and a savage vinyl devotee, who has made it his personal project to smash, burn and destroy iPods in his battle against the mp3 format and what he sees as our age's devaluation of music. There is plenty of destruction, distortion and noise in both Wilson's sound and Hoile's images, and the film becomes larger than the sum of its artistic input, thanks to the mutual understanding between the two.

Steven Wilson will himself be present at the screening on the 13th of November for a conversation with Lasse Hoile about today's music culture. Maybe he will even have the time to destroy a few iPods.