We’ve just passed the half-way point of the German Film Festival being screened at the Palace Cinemas in Byron Bay and there are still plenty of great films to see if you haven’t already got them in your diary.
One to look forward to on Monday is FCK 2020: Two and a Half Years with Scooter, It’s a doof-doof 150bpm success story music documentary from Cordula Kablitz-Post that follows Germany’s undisputed techno superstars Scooter, and frontman Hans Peter Geerdes, aka HP Baxxter, the mastermind of Scooter.
During the ‘90s no German band polarised opinion like them, but what was formerly considered disposable music is today cultish, Dadaist madness. With simple and concise slogans like ‘Hyper! Hyper!’ and ‘How much is the fish?’, Scooter became internationally known and has now sold over 30 million records.
Over the last two and a half years, Kablitz-Post followed Scooter throughout Europe – during private moments, in the studio, on the road and at concerts. Interweaving gripping live and private archival footage, this intimate portrait of the legendary frontman and band explores the emotional highs and lows in a time when parties and live performances were forbidden.
While the first part of the title ‘FCK 2020’ refers to a Scooter hit from 2020, it also responds to the pandemic-related imposition of a complete halt to all public music activities with surreal humour and an anarchic spirit of resistance.
FCK 2020: Two and a Half Years with Scooter screens at the Palace Byron on Monday at 8.30pm
