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COSMIC FUKC: Prog Rock Pond Scum Set To Bum You Out

What's it like to be in the most demanding band in the world?The average age of a King Crimson member is 68, but they can bend time and out-play any other rock band on the planet. What is the philosophy that has led to 50 years of successful reinvention, and why won't the man who asked to make a film about his band, let me to talk to him?

  • Toby Amies
    Director
    The Man Whose Mind Exploded
  • Toby Amies
    Producer
    The Man Whose Mind Exploded
  • Katrina Mansoor
    Producer
    The Man Whose Mind Exploded
  • Nick Freand Jones
    Producer
    Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
  • Robert Fripp
    Key Cast
    "Himself"
    David Bowie's Heroes
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Genres:
    Sci-Fi, Romance, Comedy, Rockumentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 27 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    October 31, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    250,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Tobias Amies
Distribution Information
  • Tobias Amies
Director Biography - Toby Amies

Toby Amies is maker of films, photographs, and mistakes, best known for The Man Whose Mind Exploded "a beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema". He also directs shorts about the creative process for Nowness and Tate Britain. Before becoming a full-time director he made documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and was a producer and presenter of music and travel programmes in the UK and the US, including the launch of live programming for MTV USA.

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Director Statement

I don't want to tell my audiences what to think or how to feel, but as a documentarian, I want to share with them as best I can what it was like to be in the place that I was, and that way to exist in the moment together. I do want to make them laugh though, and if that requires me to make an ass of myself, then that's easily enough done.