MIFF

Dig! XX

Director Ondi Timoner / 2024 / USA
MIFF 2024

A classic tale of fame and destruction is revisited in this reconstructed rock doc about The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

In 2004, Dig! won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and became a definitive examination of the 90s indie rock scene; the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl has even described it as “the greatest rock ’n’ roll documentary of all time”. Charting the mainstream success of The Dandy Warhols and the spiralling implosion of The Brian Jonestown Massacre (especially volatile frontman Anton Newcombe), the film was like nothing before it. Twenty years later, Dig! XX adds over 40 minutes of new material and brings fans up to date on the bands’ tug-of-war between art and commerce.

Director Ondi Timoner (Amanda F

ng Palmer on the Rocks, MIFF 2014; We Live in Public, MIFF 2009) returns to mythologise the bands and big identities at the centre of her breakout documentary. Expanded using the original 2500 hours of footage she had collected, Dig! XX rebukes the easy nostalgia for a bygone era and instead looks at the heady excess of that time through older and wiser eyes, along with offering further context for the creative fruits and fallouts between the players. What hasn’t changed is that it’s still got one hell of a soundtrack and an insider story you won’t want to miss.

“Timoner’s incredible film is just as bonkers and brilliant as ever … Still as jarring, hilarious, and deeply strange as it ever was, and these new additions only make this shocking story even more astonishing.” – Collider


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Director Ondi Timoner is a guest of the festival and will be in attendance at both sessions of the film. She will also appear at In Conversation: Ondi Timoner, hosted by Zak Hepburn, on Sunday 11 August.

Following the film’s Australian Premiere on Friday 9 August, Cherry Bar is hosting an afterparty like no other. Join fellow fans to celebrate this all-time rockumentary, with The Dandy Jonestown Massacre playing songs live from the film and more.
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