“ …just stunning: a demented firework display of kaleidoscopic assault and psychedelic wonder and disco connection being fired directly into your face.” — BBC
“A psychedelic classic...” Mojo
There’s no doubt about it: ...Don’t Think is the musical and cinematic event of the year, widely hailed as the first concert film of significance since The Last Waltz, Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense or the Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter.Get set for a sensory assault of pure cinema, an intense experience on a psychedelic voyage of discovery that’s to be felt as much as seen. Flanked by 50,000 hyped-up Japanese fans, you certainly won’t be alone.
The Chemical Brothers, high priests of techno for nigh on the last two decades, are famous planet-wide for their mind-bending live shows and the accompanying large-scale visuals. For all that, they’ve never been filmed before now. The main challenge for filmmaker Adam Smith, a close collaborator of the chemical duo (he’s the mastermind behind their concert’s visuals), has been to capture the frenetic excitement from the very thick of a mega-rave. ..Don’t Think, shot with 21 cameras at Japan’s famous Fuji Rock Festival in the wake of the devastating 2011 tsunami, is also a profound affirmation of life—an image of the real Japan that blows the usual foreign media portrayals right out of the water.