Thursday, May 12 & Tuesday, May 17, 7 pm
$15 ($10 ASF Members)

This spring Music Doc celebrates its fifth year as Sweden’s most prominent music documentary film festival. To celebrate, the festival comes to New York, bringing top quality Nordic music documentaries. Screenings and events will be held throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn in collaboration with Scandinavia House, Rooftop Films, the Swede Beat, Nomadic Wax, SVT, and I Love Vinyl, among others.

An established and constantly expanding international music documentary film festival, Music Doc made its appearance for the first time six years ago in Malmö. Unique in its kind, the festival has grown both in number of visitors and collaborative partners, and has gone from being a regional event to being an annual guest at the Tempo Film Festival, Stockholm, an independent event in Göteborg , and a collaborative partner of events in Copenhagen.

Scandinavia House joins in as a venue and will host a series of screenings and concerts, including Árni Sveinsson’s documentary Backyard (Iceland, 2009). Please visit http://ny.musicdoc.se/ for a complete schedule and more details.

Backyard
May 12

Directed by Árni Sveinsson (Iceland, 2009). A guy named Árni Rúnar had the idea of gathering a few bands together in his backyard to do some live recording. His idea evolved into this film. He filled his little shack of a studio with equipment and prayed for good weather. He invited all of his neighbors and made them pizza, cupcakes, and pancakes. And then many of the most exciting Icelandic musicians of their generation (including múm, FM Belfast, Hjaltalín, and Sin Fang) showed up to play, giving a unique look at the diverse music scene of Reykjavík in the summer of 2009. 70 min.