AFF Presents Sonic Youth: Sleeping Nights Awake

Sonic Youth has been getting a lot of attention lately, to the point where they're appearing in really weird places, like "Fresh Air" and stuff. This seems strange to us, since we treasured our cassette of "Goo" in ninth grade and certainly would never have thought of SY as NPR-approved Culture. Thankfully, the new documentary Sleeping Nights Awake is a bit different from these official sanctifications of Kim, Thurston, et al.

Seven high school students were given cameras and a couple days access to the band (thus creating the embodiment of our own ninth-grade fantasy--where was this project when we were young?) The footage is supposedly very candid and "honest," as well as, according to the description, "innocent" (though we hate it when people describe kids as "innocent," in this instance we'll take the point).

This Thursday night, the Austin Film Festival will host a screening of the film at the Alamo Lake Creek. Writer-director Michael Albright will be on hand to take questions.