X-Ray Audio: The Documentary

X-Ray Audio: The Documentary (2016)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2016-02-11
  • Runtime: 0h 14min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Directors: Stephen Coates, Paul Heartfield.

Summary

Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Giving blood every week to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, one bootlegger Rudy Fuchs cuts banned music onto such discarded x-rays to be sold on street corners by shady dealers. It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.

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