Caouette’s All Tomorrow’s Parties

Just found out that Jonathan Caouette, the guy who made the extraordinary ‘Tarnation’ – a touching autobiographic, home-made (edited with iMovie actually) account based on his own Super-8 home footage, photographs, audio recordings, and various pop-culture snippets (Cocteau Twins, Low a.o.), post-produced and released with the help of Gus Van Sant and Jonathan Cameron Mitchell – is working on a documentary on the music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties. The film is commissioned bu ATP and Warp films, and will future lots of “found” footage, that Caouette is assembling via the internet. On the movie Myspace page it says: ” we need your footage! We are after all kinds of material from camcorder footage through to mobile phone video. We are as interested in off stage footage as concert material. It is a low-budget film, and because of the volume of material involved, we can’t pay for footage but anyone whose material is used in the final film will be credited on the movie, be invited to the launch screening/event, get a package of Warp DVD goodies and ATP guest list to future shows”. The film will not be the result of a real (intended) collaborative effort, but the internet-mediated-assemblage idea will probably get some following – something that happened with the Beastie Boys’ concert film ‘Awesome: I ——‘ Shot That!’ (using footage shot by fans) as well (in Belgium Daan Stuyven did a similar thing).

Anyway, let’s hope some footage of the bands and songs posted here (and many others) turns up in the movie: