Ankst - the movie!
SAUNDERS LEWIS vs ANDY WARHOL
(a ffilm found on the stockroom floor) (2008) 80mins
Eighteen Short Films About Late 20th Century Welsh Language Rock Music
Between 1989 and 1998 EMYR GLYN WILLIAMS ran Welsh indie label ANKST
RECORDS. In that time he also created a wide ranging visual record of all
the great bands he worked with on formats ranging from Super 8 / 16mm and
35mm to VHSC, Digibeta and all formats in between.
From all these sources he has pulled together the musical memoir film that is 'Saunders Lewis vs Andy Warhol'.
Emyr calls 'Saunders Lewis v Andy Warhol' ......
' A personal ffilm..... a group portrait from a time before Welsh music was Cool or Devolved, and a ffilm created exclusively from the images that I shot and independently produced at that time augmented by words that were said directly to me. A ffilm found on the stockroom floor is the best description of the form of the film but a truer, more emotionally apt title for the ffilm would be 'Have You Seen Your Culture Baby Standing In The Shadows ? '
Among the groups who appear ... Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Ffa Coffi Pawb, Catatonia, Melys, Topper, Fflaps, Datblygu, Llwybr Llaethog, Y Cyrff, Ectogram, Beganifs.
EMYR GLYN WILLIAMS is a committed independent film maker who has already won BAFTA glory with his debut film Y LLEILL(The Others) (2005) and has seen his concert film NOBODY KNOWS IF IT EVER HAPPENED ( 2006) with krautrock legends FAUST lauded by the critics and securing a cinema run at the prestigious ICA Cinemas in London"
