The late-'60s avant garde rock band CAN gets a feature-length tribute with this affectionate documentary chronicling its odd inception and subsequent career. In CAN -- The Documentary, the remaining band members are interviewed amidst culled together archival footage from talk shows, concerts, and television appearances to paint a portrait of a band who always remained happily on the sidelines of mass appeal, mixing street music, jazz, folk, and rock into a sometimes poppy, sometimes abstract stew. The band's influence on such seminal acts as Sonic Youth and Talking Heads is also analyzed.
Editing
Scattered archival footage mirrors the band's improvisational chaos.
Production
Rare interviews with the famously reclusive surviving members.
Director
Hannes Rossacher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
CAN essentially invented the sample before samplers existed, lifting sounds from shortwave radios and cutting tapes with razor blades.
The band rehearsed in a castle near Cologne and once played so loud that birds fell dead from the sky—allegedly.
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