January 19, 2006

Awesome…. A Film By The Beastie Boys’ Fans

When the Beastie Boys played at Madison Gardens recently they handed out 50 cameras to the audience. At the end, they gathered the cameras, edited the film and now they will release the result this weekend at Sundance film festival. The NY Times reports how the idea came to them:

While perusing the message boards on the site one day in mid-2004, Mr.
Yauch came across a concert photo snapped by a fan with his cellphone
and found himself taken with the shakiness and rawness of the image.
"The energy of it looked cool, and I thought it would look interesting
to document a whole concert," Mr. Yauch said.

NY Times Article
Beastie Boys

2 Responses to “Awesome…. A Film By The Beastie Boys’ Fans”

PSFK
Posted from: 204.9.178.8
February 24th, 2006 at 11:42 pm

Beastie’s Awesome In NYC

We talked about the Beastie Boy film Awesome back in January. Now, New Yorkers can get an special view of it. Awesome, I Fuckin’ Shot That was shot with 50 video cameras handed out to fans at an October 2004 Beastie Boys concert at Madison Square Gard…
alaw
Posted from: 168.86.3.2
March 14th, 2006 at 12:02 pm

I heard this concert footage is being shown March 23 at dozens of movie theatres across the country. They are showing this in addition to Adam Yauch’s docufilm about a day in the life (aka Nathanial Hornblower).

Get tix at

www.bigscreenconcerts.com