Various Artists - Extremes
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"Extremes" is a 1970
documentary film directed by Tony Klinger and Mike Lytton describing the
backdrop of the third edition of the famous Isle of Wight Festival. This is not a music
video. Its
creators - then barely twenty - did not have the opportunity to film their
concerts. That is why they focused
on the social, and actually sociological, theme of this event. The film focuses on a
whole range of young people's attitudes - festival participants who use a more
or less rationalized feast of hippie freedom. So we watch the carefree
fans who are on the beach naked, teen drug addicts explaining why they chose to
live with hard drugs, despite the fact that they are watching the effects of
fatal overdose every step of the way, We follow the scene of
harassment of casual passers by stray young girls behaving like women of light
customs, who during this event seemed to for a few days at all costs want to
lose their innocence. In addition, the
phenomena and groups that mark their presence in this film is definitely
more. Hippies, homosexuals,
various fallen witches, Hell's Angels, alcoholics, uninhabited people, and
'normal' fans all represent some nonconformist minorities who have participated
and, as we know, have in many cases made a great mark in this legendary
festival. . In addition, the
phenomena and groups that mark their presence in this film is definitely
more. Hippies, homosexuals,
various fallen witches, Hell's Angels, alcoholics, uninhabited people, and
'normal' fans all represent some nonconformist minorities who have participated
and, as we know, have in many cases made a great mark in this legendary
festival. . In addition, the
phenomena and groups that mark their presence in this film is definitely
more. Hippies, homosexuals,
various fallen witches, Hell's Angels, alcoholics, uninhabited people, and
'normal' fans all represent some nonconformist minorities who have participated
and, as we know, have in many cases made a great mark in this legendary
festival. .
Gentlemen Klinger and
Lytton do not judge. They do not make
conclusions. They behave more like
chroniclers documenting some unusual and new, as for those times,
phenomena. And they do it very
well. Precisely and
naturally. As if they already
sensed that they filmed events related to the feast of music and freedom, which
will forever go down in the history of the epoch. The film's authors
emphasize this fact with a special note that they did not arrange the scenes
they filmed. They just documented
what they saw. Nothing was organized
before, manipulated or arranged: everything was filmed as it really
was.
The music accompanying
this film comes not from the festival stage, but from the studio. Specifically from the
discs released at that time. The creators so
skillfully matched the pieces to the film's illustration that they turned out to
be a fascinating sound creation. Supertramp, Arc,
Crucible and other artists. I do not have to add
that the sound material is not only a great musical picture of the epoch but is
a perfect supplement to this fascinating picture.
The first public
screening of "Extremes" took place at the Cannes Film Festival'71. In the same year he was
also shown at the London Film Festival. Now it appears for the
first time on a DVD. In addition, you can
find a movie with a special commentary and an interview with Tony
Klinger.
And here is a list of
songs that served as a soundtrack for this document.
- Arc - An Ear Ago
- Arc - Great Lager Street
- Crucible - Box Man
- Mark McCann - Black Rose
- Mark McCann - Refrigerated Warmth
- Arc - Let Your Love Run Through
- Crucible - Hit It
- Supertramp - Surely
- Supertramp - Am I Not Like Other Birds of Prey
- Arc - I'm A Perfectly Happy Man
- Supertramp - Words Unspoken
- Crucible - Elvish Queen
- Crucible - We Gotta Watch Out
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