Jaw Breaker - Anti Cimex Documentary followed by a livestream Q&A

$10 - Livestram Q&A with the band following the movie
Seats are limited so we suggest buying advance tickets for this.
Jawbreaker is a documentary about Anti Cimex – the band that
defined Scandinavian hardcore punk and became one of Sweden's
most influential musical exports. From their first recordings in a
chicken coop on the plains of Västergötland to the global punk scene,
marked by their uncompromising d-beat, the film paints a portrait of a
band that continued to break boundaries long after they had called it
quits.
Spanning four decades of music, chaos and retold myths, the film
moves between the past and the present. Here we encounter not just a
band, but an attitude – a force of nature.
Tomas Jonsson's iconic voice, the band's political charge and raw
dynamics form the backdrop to the story of how Anti Cimex shaped
both a sound and a subculture.
Through international filmmakers, archive material and newly
recorded fragments, Jawbreaker takes us from Skaraborg to Kuantan
in Malaysia, from DIY scenes to the Swedish Music Hall of Fame. It
is a film about creative friction, about a band that refused to follow the
rules – and about the resonance their music has in a contemporary
world that is disturbingly reminiscent of the doom and gloom of the
1980s.
Directors Tomas Haglund and Oskar Sjödin portray Anti Cimex with
humour, tenderness and a dreamlike energy that reflects the band's
own unpredictability. The result is a film about a musical legacy as
dirty as it is influential – and as alive today as when it started out in a
chicken coop over forty years ago.