![]() ![]() And curiosity over the members’ identities is still running strong - ironically at a time when most entertainers are doing everything they can to promote themselves on Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr. Yet the band’s uncompromising art and its anonymity go hand in hand. These are hardly hallmarks of longevity in the popular music world. Their stage shows, multimedia projects and films are wildly surreal efforts that often viciously deconstruct and mock Western music, society, politics and pop culture. Their music can be unstructured and abrasive. The Residents are better known to most of the world for donning huge eyeballs and other weird masks and costumes than for any particular album or song. The importance of the mystique cannot be overstated. Once you find out what the trick is, the mystique is gone.” “Why give away the secrets? It’s the same as a magician’s trick. Codegirl will open in theaters starting November 1, with VOD release on all major platforms beginning November 6.“They steadfastly stand behind the curtain and are determined to stay there until the day they die,” says band spokesman Homer Flynn, who works for the Residents’ management group, Cryptic Corporation, and in fact has been rumored to be an actual band member. THEORY OF OBSCURITY FULL MOVIE SOFTWARETracking competitors from Moldova to urban Brazil to suburban Massachusetts, the film follows their efforts to become part of the fast growing app software industry. ![]() Technovation invites high school aged girls from across the world to design an app which solves a problem in their community over a three month period. Rosenberg, President of Film Movement, negotiated the deal with Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment.ĭigital entertainment curation outfit FilmBuff has announced the licensing of worldwide rights to distribute Codegirl, a new documentary from director Lesley Chilcott that chronicles the Technovation competition. Directed by Don Hardy, the KTF Films production was executive produced by Yoshifumi Okuyama and The Noxious Twins, and produced by Hardy, Barton John Bishoff, and Josh Keppel. Following theatrical run, Theory Of Obscurity will be released on digital and home video platforms. The film is will see its New York City premiere on November 14 as part of Doc NYC, with theatrical release planned to start in March, 2016. The SXSW hit documentary Theory Of Obscurity: A Film About The Residents, aims to change that, somewhat anyway, and fans of the band and curious looky-loos alike will get a chance to see it thanks to Film Movement, which has acquired worldwide rights to the documentary. To this day it isn’t even certain if people known to be associated with them even existed. Their official biographical information, which has long provided scant information about the band’s members, remains some of the only information about them. Releasing dozens of albums and various performance art projects the members have hid their identities behind masks and costumes (typically eyeball helmets, top hats and tuxedos). Since the early 70s, the San Francisco-based art music collective The Residents has made a name for itself practically by not making one at all. ![]()
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