The Aldrich Presents a Film Screening "It Might Get Loud"

Film Screening: It Might Get Loud

Thursday, October 17 · 7 pm to 9 pm

Who hasn't wanted to be a rock star, join a band or play electric guitar? Music resonates; it moves and inspires us. Strummed by the fingers of Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White, somehow it does more. Enter their world in It Might Get Loud, presented in conjunction with The Aldrich's Music exhibition series and surrounded by artist James Mollison's photographs of eclectic music fans, The Disciples, in The Aldrich's Leir Gallery.

Seen through the eyes of three virtuosos from three different generations, the film allows the audience to get up close and personal, discovering how a studio musician and painter from London, a seventeen-year-old Dublin schoolboy, and a furniture upholsterer from Detroit each used the electric guitar to develop their unique sound and rise to the pantheon of superstardom. Insightful discussions are provoked as the viewer travels with Page, The Edge, and White to influential locations from their pasts, giving access to the creative genesis of each legend.

On an empty soundstage, the musicians come together, crank up the amps and play, while describing their own musical rebellions. They share their influences, swap stories, and teach each other songs. During this musical journey, see the stone halls of Headley Grange where Stairway to Heaven was composed, visit a haunting Tennessee farmhouse where White writes a song on-camera, and eavesdrop inside the dimly lit Dublin studio where The Edge lays down initial guitar tracks for U2's forthcoming single.

It Might Get Loud might not affect how you play guitar, but it will change how you listen. The film is directed and produced by An Inconvenient Truth's Davis Guggenheim, and produced by Thomas Tull, Lesley Chilcott and Peter Afterman. Presented in collaboration with Connecticut Film Festival.

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For more information, please contact Tracy Moore at tmoore@aldrichart.org