Filmed over 15 years, this is the true story of iconic reggae producer Lee Scratch Perry, a maverick pioneer of dub. It’s also a guide on how to change the world using art and music. With unprecedented access to Perry’s inner-world, the sonic and spiritual collide as viewers travel with the famed ‘Upsetter’ from Jamaica to Ethiopia, Switzerland to London. From his legendary and largely mysterious Black Ark Studio (where he recorded Bob Marley) through to his glimpses of the future, the fighting-fit 71 year-old Grammy-winning visionary is both candid and confounding in this feature-length documentary from German filmmaker Volker Schaner.
Included in Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Perry has worked with everyone from Keith Richards, The Beastie Boys, George Clinton, The Orb and Moby, to David Lynch and porn star Sasha Grey. After six decades behind the controls he continues to innovate and inspire.
Sydney dub soundsystem Foreigndub will be playing in the cinema bar following the screening.