Truckfighters (2011)

Directed by

Joerg Steineck

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 24m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the Swedish rock band Truckfighters. It shows them working day jobs, recording an album, and touring Europe. The film includes interviews and surreal animated sequences.

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What happens

Truckfighters is a documentary directed by Joerg Steineck about the Swedish rock band named Truckfighters. It incorporates various interviews with the band, showing their members working on day-to-day jobs in their home town Örebro, recording the album "Mania" in their studio and following them on tour through Europe. The film, which is documentative in style of narration, signifies itself a "fuzzomentary film". It provides various surreal graphical sequences of fictional and non fictional content, which serve as connective and illustrative elements. A certain graphical style leads as stylistic central theme through the entire film. Truckfighters additionally features short guest appearances of well known names like Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age, Kyuss), Alfredo Hernandez (Kyuss, Yawning Man), Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age, Mondo Generator). Furthermore it provides guest appearances by singer/songwriter Chris Maher (anchorman) and first hour Kyuss member Chris Cockrell (annotator/off-voice). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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