All anybody wanted to do when they stepped out of the French Waves screening on Saturday was not only to go back to the nineties and rave on with Daft Punk, Cassius or Justice but also rush out and listen to the new artists they had discovered in the documentary.
Julian Starke’s documentary and web series French Waves depicting the rich landscape of the electronic music scene from its birth in the 80’s to today was followed up by an inspiring intergenerational Q&A at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema.
Last Tuesday, as the credits rolled on a backdrop of fresh Palestinian rap after the screening of Junction 48, the packed Metrograph theatre broke in a thunder of applause.