This year’s visual celebration of sound offers rare chances to see documentaries on geniuses like Jeff Buckley, Arvo Pärt, Townes Van Zandt, Leadbelly, and Charles Mingus. Or you might wish to relive the rowdy past in Scene Minneapolis 1977-1986, which chronicles the heyday of the local punk scene and includes recently unearthed footage of Soul Asylum (they didn’t start out, you know, famous). Among the more than forty films about musicians, inspired by music, or including music in a unique way are a couple retro offerings for kids: The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, a fantasia about piano lessons gone terribly wrong, and The Point, a cartoon with an ear-worn soundtrack about a kid with a round head trying to get by in a pointy-headed world. www.soundunseen.com
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