I Get Knocked Down + Q&A CTBA
I Get Knocked Down is the untold story of Leeds-based anarcho-pop band Chumbawamba. Founding band-member Dunstan Bruce is 59, and he is struggling with the fact that the world seems to be going to hell in a handcart. Twenty years after his fall from grace, Bruce is angry and frustrated, but how does a retired middle-aged radical get back up again?
In this punk version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Dunstan is visited by the antagonistic ghost of his anarchist past – his alter ego, ‘Babyhead’ – who forces him to question his own life, sending him on a search for his long-lost anarchist mojo. Following Bruce’s personal voyage of rediscovery, redemption, and reawakening, I Get Knocked Down acts as a call to arms to those who think activism is best undertaken by someone else.
The Q&A will be with founding member of Chumbawamba and co-director of the film, Dunstan Bruce, and co-director Sophie Robinson. The Q&A will be hosted by music and culture writer Daniel Dylan Wray (The Guardian, Vice, Uncut).
- Director
- Dunstan Bruce
- Year
- 2022
- Duration
- 1 hour 28 minutes
- Language
- English
- Cast
- Dunstan Bruce
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