King
Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard in
CHUNKY SHRAPNEL + SLEEPING MONSTER
Tuesday,
May 30 at 7:30pm
$10 Members | $15 Public
CHUNKY
SHRAPNEL is the
much-anticipated feature length live music documentary that follows the hugely
popular, hyper-prolific Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
on their recent European tour. Literally bringing the audience onto the
stage, CHUNKY offers a uniquely immersive experience never before captured on
film… a musical road movie dipped in turpentine. King Gizzard has released 20
studio albums in 10 years (including five in 2017 alone), 10 of them charting
in the Top 20 in Australia, where they are now arguably the country’s most
innovative, important, and productive rock band.
SLEEPING
MONSTER (short) was
filmed in Melbourne during the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Australia had one of the most strict lockdowns in the world,” Gizzard frontman
Stu Mackenzie says. “We couldn’t really do anything. We couldn’t make
music. But there were a few ways to legally get together, one of which was to
make a film, so that’s what we did. We spent a lot of that period just filming
and documenting everything as we recorded and did other things.” Indeed, Sleeping
Monster captures the band members building their new studio (“We’re
six skinny, scrawny musos, but we got our hands dirty,” Mackenzie said) and
recording the album Changes, work on which began in 2017 but was finally
released in October 2022. “It’s definitely part of the Changes world and sits
alongside it.”
(Australia,
2022-2023, 98 mins + 30 mins short, color, DCP)
