Rock on Bones

Caroline Troubetzkoy / France / 2014 / World Premiere / 154 min.

synopsis

An encounter between a French director and the Russian punk band The Oz launched a more than two-year journey between Paris and St. Petersburg. Captivated by the band’s charismatic singer Igor Salnikov, Caroline Troubetzkoy decides to help The Oz break through in the West. In return, she gets an exclusive opportunity to learn about the history of Russian rock’n’roll and its politically charged contexts, and gains access to rare footage for a highly personal film that exceeds the definition of documentary and tends towards performance.

DETAIL:
“Western vinyls arrived in the country as contraband, but nobody could afford the price. So some clever guys had the bright idea of inventing an illegal machine that could copy these vinyls on pieces of medical X-rays.”

biography

Caroline Troubetzkoy is an independent filmmaker who, before shooting Rock on Bones, made the fiction film La Fin Du Bal (The End of Ball, 2003) about a young girl’s kidnapping. She is the former artistic director of the Paris gallery La Blanchisserie, where the members of The Oz hung out while in France. She currently heads the Samovar production company.