Meet Me In The Bathroom

Director: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern

Institute History

  • 2022 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Welcome to pre-9/11 New York City, when the world was unaware of the profound political and cultural shifts about to occur, and an entire generation was thirsty for more than the post–alternative pop rock plaguing MTV. In the cafés, clubs, and bars of the Lower East Side there convened a group of outsiders and misfits full of ambition and rock star dreams. When The Strokes secured a residency at the Mercury Lounge in 2000, the scene that had previously been ignored by record labels and music magazines took off.
Directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace (Shut Up and Play the Hits) return to the Sundance Film Festival with this vibrant account of the moment that launched a musical rebirth in New York City. Combining never-before-seen footage of bands like The Moldy Peaches, LCD Soundsystem, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with intimate audio interviews, Meet Me In The Bathroom — ??inspired by Lizzy Goodman’s book of the same name — chronicles the last great romantic age of rock ’n’ roll through the lens of era-defining bands.

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