Event

Mistaken for Strangers

Director/Star Tom Berninger live via Skype! Co-Presented by SPARK BOOM
Includes after-party with J-Ro from WUSB's Radio Free J-Ro spinning tunes!
A rock-doc with a surprisingly affecting look at sibling dynamics in a creative family where one
brother is vastly more successful than the other, Tom Berninger's film chronicles his experience on
the road with his big brother Matt's band, The National

Hailed by Michael Moore as "one of the best documentaries about a band that I've ever seen" and by Pitchfork as "the funniest, most meta music movie since SPINAL
TAP," MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS is a truly hilarious and touching film about two brothers, Matt and Tom Berninger. Matt, the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock
band The National, finally finds himself flush with success. His younger brother Tom is a loveable slacker - a filmmaker and metal-head still living with his parents in Cincinnati.
On the eve of The National's biggest tour to date, Matt invites Tom to work for the band as a roadie, unaware of Tom's plan to film the entire adventure. What starts as a rock documentary quickly becomes a crowd-pleasing journey about family, ambition, and the creative process.
USA, 2013, 75 min., NR, DCP | Director: Tom Berninger
SPARKBOOM is a project of the Huntington Arts Council funded by the New York State Council on the Arts
with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature