Blondes in the Jungle Screening November 11, 2009

BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE
New film by Ball Deep International
2009.
WINNER: "Best Narrative Feature", 2009 Chicago Underground Film Festival

On a hunt for the Fountain of Youth, three teenagers in 1980's Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encounters. Tons of landscape footage, a meditation on Mayan Archaeology and a heavy TV teen vibe highlight this impulse-buy spiritual adventure.

Original soundtrack by 1987 World Beat band El Jefe and The Executive Look, featuring contributions by members of Aa, Asobi Seksu, Birthday Boyz, Vampire Weekend and Julianna Barwick.

JULIANNA BARWICK AND JOHN ATKINSON
Screening will be followed by a live set of a capella new-age and/or dance music by John Atkinson (of Aa) and Julianna Barwick, inspired by their collaboration on the soundtrack.

Pitchfork Media
"The film's soundtrack features contributions from a cross-section of the NYC indie rock mafia...Listen to the haunting track "The Fountain", by Julianna Barwick and Aa's John Atkinson."

Wears the Trousers Magazine
'The Fountain' is a thickly-layered, virtually a cappella choral duet between Julianna and Aa's John Atkinson that enchants as much as it disorientates...It's rather lovely, actually.
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