Fellow lovers of soulful music and movies about soulful music, don't miss this New Orleans screening of the new, award-winning documentary Brothers Hypnotic (2013), directed by Reuben Atlas.
Brothers Hypnotic
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
7:00 p.m.
Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), 900 Camp St., New Orleans - 504-528-3800
Presented by the New Orleans Film Society (NOFS)
Admission: Free for NOFS and CAC Members. $7 general admission.
About the film:
For the eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, “brotherhood” is literal: they’re all sons of anti-establishment jazz legend, Phil Cohran. Cohran and their mothers raised them together on Chicago’s South Side on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black Consciousness. Family band practice began at 6 AM.
Now grown, as they raise eight brass horns to the sky, they make music that is at once indescribably joyful, unremittingly exciting, and undeniably together. But as the brothers try to make their own way in the wide world—while playing in the streets of New York City, collaborating with Mos Def, or wowing a jazz festival—they find the values their father bred into them constantly tested. They must decide whether his principles really are their own.
Brothers Hypnotic is a coming of age story, for eight brothers, and for an ideal.
More info:
www.HypnoticBrassFilm.com
www.facebook.com/BrothersHypnotic
