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The Best Summer
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Fri 16 Oct 6:00 PM
Capri Theatre
General Admission
Unclassified 18+
84 MinsShaggy hair, baggy clothes, wraparound sunglasses and glorious low-fi Hi8 video. The Best Summer drops us straight into 1995, backstage at Australia’s Summersault tour with Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Pavement, Beck and a fledgling Foo Fighters. Billy Madison (1995) director Tamra Davis was travelling with then-husband Mike D of Beastie Boys when she turned her camcorder on the musicians around her, capturing performances, conversations, downtime and the chaos in between. Rediscovered three decades later, the footage retains the loose intimacy of a home movie and the thrill of being somewhere you shouldn’t. With no contemporary talking heads interrupting the journey, Davis immerses us in an alternative music culture before smartphones, social media and everyone knowing where the camera is - when some of the era’s defining artists were still young enough to simply hang out together.