Evento

CASSETTE: A DOCUMENTARY MIXTAPE

CASSETTE: A DOCUMENTARY MIXTAPE
dir Zack Taylor, 2017
90 min, USA

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 7:30 PM
MONDAY, MAY 14 10 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 26 10 PM (Q&A WITH DIRECTOR!)

In 2011, I read that the term cassette tape was being removed from The Oxford English Dictionary. As a child of the 80s I was completely bummed out by this; it was as if one of my favorite rock stars had died.

I decided that someone ought to give the cassette a proper eulogy.Its difficult to say goodbye to a format that a new generation picked up on, either out of irony, nostalgia, or sheer tangibility. But whatever the reason, audiotapes refused to be killed. Cassette is an investigation into this strange resurgence, led by the mediums inventor, Lou Ottens.

Director Zack Taylor is a commercial videographer living in New York City. He studied film at the Newport Film School in Wales. Cassette is his first feature film.Zack began making mixtapes for friends as a teenager. Cassette grew out of a nostalgia not only for the medium, but for the process of compiling music for other people.