I Am Three - Road Movie Premiere and album launch!!!

Time	16 October · 14:30 - 17:00
Location	Matt and Phreds 85 Oldham Street Manchester, United Kingdom
More info	I Am Three - What we don't say - a feature length rockumentory, travelling across europe with Manchesters most extraordinary musical duo Irv and Hughes have been performing together for two years, Hughes (aka bleeding hands), and Irv a straight edge punk, form two opposing forces in musical tact which collides in emphatic style to form "I Am Three". In mid may 2010 the band set off to conquer Europe on a road trip of insane prop...ortions. 'It's What We Don't Say' is a feature length Rockumentary of I Am Three's 2010 European Tour. Filmed in Manchester, London, Berlin, Krakow, Brussels & Dusseldorf, the camera tails the two musicians as they speed from country to country and includes full length live versions of nine songs. The road movie is interspersed with interviews and tour exploits. Bearing the same name as I Am Three's second album, the two will be release simultaneously on 1st October 2010. In what sometimes seems like "Withnail and I meets top gear" this movie lets you experience first hand, the trials and tribulations that is an unsigned bands mission to perform in new pastures on zero budget. A true roller coaster of mind blowing performances, 1000's of miles of road, 100's of truckers, music, and art. As well as live performance the movie is sound tracked also by " I Am Three's" new album, "what we don't say" their second studio album, the album promises to wean any disbelievers into suckling on the creative fountain of I Am Three. For fans who are familiar with I Am Three's material, this represents a giant leap forward from their debut Album "it's never too late" whilst maintaining their panache for the down right unusual, and total disregard for adherence to a genre. The songs are subtly tied together to create something contextual that works an entire album, a journey through sound played out on a sonic battlefield where tracks mix into each other like the paints of an artists palette, creating a colourful and beautiful kaleidoscope of Irv and Hughes personalities. 'What We Don't Say' movie and sound track will be released on 1st October 2010, celebrated by an Exclusive movie première 16th October 2010 - Matt and Phreds, Oldham Street Manchester Doors at 2:30pm FREE ENTRY! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144359555579989&ref=ts

Interview with Mina Vigrad June 2010 Taken from FILMitU

Rockumentaries usually consist of montages of posing wannabe musicians talking about how great they are interspersed with theatrical gig footage and tedious crowd shots. Mina Vigrad's 'What We Don't Say,' a film chronicle of Manchester duo I Am Three's 2010 European tour breaks all these rules. We catch up with the producer/director and ask her about the release.

 

Q: How did the I Am Three film come about?

MV: Basically I saw them playing live a couple times and thought they'd make an interesting topic for a documentary film as they are great musicians but don't behave like your rock star wannabes. They are both really down to earth and have a blatant disregard for acting out any stage persona. Initially I intended on just filming a couple of their gigs dashed with a few interviews but when they said they had a European tour coming up I decided to capture that event instead.  

 

Q: Were you present for the whole tour?

MV: I was there for most of the gigs and I gave them a camera to film the bits I missed.

 

Q: How much footage did you have to work with?

MV: There were about sixteen hours of raw footage, which isn't a lot when you consider this includes all the gigs themselves. It's very difficult trying to record the whole story though, a lot of important things happen when you aren't filming, there's so many things missing but I think the film is a good representation of what two weeks on the road with Irving and Hughes is like.

 

Q: This is the first film you've made, are you a film graduate?

MV: No, I've absolutely zero film making background, but I think we've all seen enough TV in our lives to know what works and what doesn't. While I was editing the scenes I would come across something that just didn't work and go in the opposite direction to avoid it. The guys gave me a stack of their music so I had a lot of musical backdrops to build footage over too. Some of the scenes, like the gigs, needed no editing others have literally hundreds of cuts in every minute.

 

Q: What did the band think when they saw the film, did they object to any of it?

MV: the first time they saw it was when I showed them the final edit, they both agreed it summed up the tour properly. Hughes was impressed that it managed to condense hundreds of hours into a few minutes. Irving was amazed that the shoddy footage they'd shot could be polished up to look good.

 

Q: Tech wise, what did you use to shoot and produce the film?

MV: The whole thing was an absolute zero budget. I know people often say that when they mean it was made for under £50k, but there was zero budget in this case, I tagged along with the band for the gigs at their expense in their car, shot it on a borrowed camera and edited it on hacked software. There are minimal effects or processes in the film, with the noticeable exception of the Ludlow footage which looked so terrible because it was a festival gig in a tent on a rainy grey day. I had to use some creative trickery because it was so unusable otherwise.

 

Q: Where can people see the film?

MV: I'm currently working with Hughes and Irving about this, they are going to play before or after the film at the initial UK screenings, which will probably be in cafes and bars across the country, so you'll get a gig and a film all in one. 

 

Q: Do you intend on working with the band again in the future?

MV: I don't see why not, we had a bit of a laugh, if they ever want a video shooting I'll happily do it.

 

'What We Don't Say' will on limited release in the UK from September.