Our full length documentary 'Roentgenizdat - Bone Music' premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in London. It was awarded the Best Documentary Feature at the Russian Film Festival in London in October 2016 and was part of a major exposition at Trieste Film festival in January2017. It is currently showing at various festivals throughout 2017 including the COURAGE FILM FESTIVAL

This is the trailer for ROENTGENIZDAT - a documentary by Stephen Coates and Paul Heartfield on 'The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone'. "Leningrad 1946, the Cold War: All culture is subject to the brutal control of a totalitarian state censor. But music-mad bootleggers devise an incredible and risky way to listen to and share the music they love, copying forbidden songs onto used X-ray film and creating their own records.." It features interviews with Soviet era x-ray Bootleggers, musicians Marc Almond and Stephen Coates and extraordinary archive footage telling the story of one of the strangest eras in vinyl, music, forbidden culture and cold war history. The UK premiere will be at the Raindance Festival September 25th: http://calendar.raindancefestival.org/films/roentgenizdat

"Leningrad 1946, the Cold War: All culture is subject to the brutal control of a totalitarian state censor. But music-mad bootleggers devise an incredible and risky way to listen to and share the music they love, copying forbidden songs onto used X-ray film and creating their own records."

It features new interviews with Marc Almond, Artyemi Troistky and Stephen Coates, Soviet era x-ray Bootleggers and extraordinary archive footage telling the story of one of the strangest eras in vinyl, music, forbidden culture and cold war history.

With the trailer here:

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