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Sound for the Future
An affectionate and hilarious reconstruction of the story of The Hippies, Britain’s youngest punk band, formed by artist Matt Hulse and his siblings in 1979.
Director: Matt Hulse
Overview
With limitless energy and wit, Matt reconstructs this formative period in his life through participatory workshops with young people, themselves often somewhat bemused. He performs his own life from age 11 using archive material, family photographs and home movies, as well as newly created animation. The sibling’s mum Ruth was the inspiration for the band’s formation and became its manager. Their first gigs were staged to her assortment of acquaintances, which included homeless people, drunks and addicts, animal rights activists and, allegedly, a pair of gay Franciscan friars. If the rich soundtrack is a reminder of punk’s defiance of Thatcherite Britain, what emerges is part-social history, part-family biography, but most of all a celebration of the power of creative resistance that unites young people across the generations.
