Lifers: A Local H Movie
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Festival Pass
$90
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Weekend Pass
$50
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Day Pass
$25
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Single Showing
$10
Full Festival Pass
Access to every in-person showing
It's Complicated Feature
USA, 82 Minutes
Director Scott Lucas
Producers Felix Pineiro, Justin Tvedt
Screenwriter Scott Lucas
Executive Producers Eddie Applebaum, Joe Shanahan, Kelly Wey
Editor Scott Lucas
Cinematographer Herman Asph
Music By Local H
Composer Scott Lucas
Cast Local H, Radkey, Gabe Rodriguez
Festival Director Note:
Almost thirty years ago, I went to Circuit City for my 21st birthday and bought myself my first personal video camera, and a copy of Local H's Ham Fisted, which I had recently read was by a band from Lake County. Two weeks later, I went to Waukegan to see them in concert, and asked if I could film them. They said yes, and then allowed me to sell VHS copies of their performance. Needless to say, the excitement I feel in getting to show Scott's directorial debut is in the running for the most exciting thing I've ever shown at the festival. It feels like everything coming full circle. Amplifying the excitement is that I'm not sure there's another movie in existence like Lifers., it's a unique mixture of live concert with brief jaunts into narrative storytelling.
A night out at a concert by cult-rock band Local H is presented as an energetic, discursive, and borderline psychedelic movie experience. Written, directed and edited by the band’s singer/guitarist Scott Lucas (and shot in real time during a blistering performance at venerable Chicago music venue the Metro), LIFERS is not quite a documentary -- and not quite a concert film-- but those elements are blended with a fractured narrative to create something that's like a cross between Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same" and Richard Linklater's "Slacker".
Almost thirty years ago, I went to Circuit City for my 21st birthday and bought myself my first personal video camera, and a copy of Local H's Ham Fisted, which I had recently read was by a band from Lake County. Two weeks later, I went to Waukegan to see them in concert, and asked if I could film them. They said yes, and then allowed me to sell VHS copies of their performance. Needless to say, the excitement I feel in getting to show Scott's directorial debut is in the running for the most exciting thing I've ever shown at the festival. It feels like everything coming full circle. Amplifying the excitement is that I'm not sure there's another movie in existence like Lifers., it's a unique mixture of live concert with brief jaunts into narrative storytelling.
A night out at a concert by cult-rock band Local H is presented as an energetic, discursive, and borderline psychedelic movie experience. Written, directed and edited by the band’s singer/guitarist Scott Lucas (and shot in real time during a blistering performance at venerable Chicago music venue the Metro), LIFERS is not quite a documentary -- and not quite a concert film-- but those elements are blended with a fractured narrative to create something that's like a cross between Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same" and Richard Linklater's "Slacker".