The underground yet fundamental story of Gaznevada becomes a docufilm. Going Undergroundthe trailer of which you can preview below, will be presented on November 8th at the 65th edition of the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, in the Let the Music Play section.
Directed by Lisa Bosi, the director of Disco Ruin: 40 years of Italian club culturethe film promises to tell «the evolution of Italian music, from punk, to Italo disco, to house, narrated through the incredible story of Gaznevada, the most important Italian punk and new wave group. A universal story that tells without filters the life of twenty-year-olds who, between the 70s and 80s, chase their dream of living with music. They are crazy, brilliant, miserable and desperate. They make dreams, they say.”
Produced by Sonne Film and Wanted Cinema, with the support of the Film Commission Emilia Romagna, distributed in theaters by Wanted Cinema, Going Underground it is not organized according to a didactic narration, but follows the flow of memories of the musicians whose voiceovers overlap with period images, thus abandoning the traditional form of the documentary with the interviewees speaking on camera.
In the background, a country in turmoil, between street clashes and the arrival of heroin, on one side commitment and on the other hedonism. And the Traumfabrik, the Bolognese dream factory in which the group and Andrea Pazienza move, who models the features of his Zanardi on those of Ciro Pagano, member of Gaznevada.
Not only that. After the 2024 remix of Mom give me the drinkon the occasion of the release of the docufilm, Gaznevada will publish three unpublished works for Warner: The Sentinel, Beetle Dance, After The Human Race.
At this link our interview with Pagano, alias Robert Squibb, below the trailer Going Underground.