Name: "I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE" – NIRVANA Documentary LA Premiere!
Start: 2024-09-20T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-20T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Philosophical Research Society

"I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE" – NIRVANA Documentary LA Premiere!

The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles is a nonprofit cultural and educational organization which presents concerts, film screenings, lectures, performance art and theatre events, gallery exhibits and more on the intersection between the creative arts and mythology, mysticism and metaphysics.

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LA premiere of the unique new doc on the incendiary, paradigm shifting band – composed solely of archival footage! Filmmakers in person!

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<h4>“Beautifully captured… this is the closest any document has yet come to capturing how it all happened, which is to say how the media event that was Nirvana unfolded before the public.” - Patrick Dahl, Screen Slate (Screen Slate’s Best Movies of 2023)</h4> <h4>“An almost authorless yet sincere tribute to the late ‘90s band.” -Jeremy Polacek, Hyperallergic</h4> PRS presents the LA premiere of the wholly unique documentary on the 90s most incendiary, vital, and paradigm shifting band – NIRVANA. I HATE MYSELF AND I WANT TO DIE tells the biographical story of Nirvana told through the media detritus left in Kurt Cobain’s wake. Refined and revised for over a decade, it's finally coming to Los Angeles with filmmakers Greg Eggebeen and Benjamin Shapiro in person! Totally devoid of the traditional trappings of biographical rock docs (talking heads, narration) – IHMAIWTD (for short) instead presents a fascinating assemblage of original, vintage footage of the epoch defining band and their explosion into 90s media, tracking the bemused trio as they grapple with the blitzkrieg of global superstardom. Collating ephemera to tell a linear narrative through the outside gaze of home video, lost practice footage, local news broadcasts, altered state TV interviews, insensitive true-crime shows, crushing live performances and more, the collected lenses reflect the lovers and leechers circling the bizarre and spectacular voyage of the unlikeliest band in the world. Following early 2010s screenings at Spectacle Theater and The Museum of Arts and Design, IHMAIWTD was refined over the ensuing years as freshly exhumed archival materials became available. In November 2023, a new version premiered at Spectacle Theater to sold out audiences. On Friday, September 20th (four days shy of Nevermind’s 33rd anniversary), join The Philosophical Research Society in a heartfelt salute to Krist, Dave and Kurt! Dirs. Greg Eggebeen and Benjamin Shapiro, 2012-2023, 65 mins, Unrated (Suggested 13 and Up), Digital. <h3> </h3><h3>Tickets: Suggested Donation $10 (In Person Only Event)</h3> Please email events@prs.org or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.

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