UK Screening Of ‘Shut Up and Play Piano’ Documentary And Screen Talk With Chilly Gonzales In London

Brand new retrospective documentary following the life and career of Grammy-winning Canadian pianist and entertainer to be screened on 12th November at The Barbican, as part of the 2018 Doc’ n Roll Film Festival

New live show also confirmed for 12th May 2019 at The Barbican

Solo Piano III is out now on Gentle Threat Ltd

Truth, fiction and mischief collide in the playful documentary ‘Shut Up And Play The Piano’, which will be screened at The Barbican on Monday 12th November for the 2018 Doc’ n Roll Film Festival. The film follows the Grammy-winning pianist and entertainer, for whom relentless self-doubt and gleeful megalomania are two sides of the same coin.

Chilly Gonzales is a professional paradox: a genre-juggling provocateur serving up rap and electro in underground Berlin who became an unexpected infiltrator of the concert halls of classical music.

Philipp Jedicke’s playful documentary follows Gonzales from his native Canada to late 1990s Berlin, and via Paris to the world’s great philharmonic halls. Along the way, he notches up collaborations with the likes of Feist, Jarvis Cocker, Peaches, Daft Punk and Drake.

The documentary makes unorthodox use of the artist’s own video archives along with interviews and performance footage. In this fast-paced portrait of a restless reveller in artifice, the film reveals Gonzales’ passion for music is as great as his love of provocation, and that his is a career driven by the desire to push boundaries as well as buttons. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Philipp Jedicke and Chilly Gonzales.

Tickets for the documentary screening and screen talk are available from here.

Following his sold-out London shows earlier this month, an additional concert has also been confirmed for May 2019 at The Barbican, and tickets are available from here.

It’s very satisfying to hear” 4* - The Guardian

Solo Piano III is a fitting virtuosic finale to this Renaissance Man’s excellent adventure” 4* – Q

Most breath-taking piece of work to date” 4* – The Skinny