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Devo On Sundance Return, Chris Smith Directed Documentary & Next 50 Years


“This documentary is just to try and get some of the information down on film somewhere, before it’ll scatters away,” admits Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh of the documentary about the band that pr…

In a festival full of music documentaries this year on legends like Luther Vandross, Brian Eno and the star studded 1985 recording of “We Are the World,” the Chris Smith directed Devo may hit even a little bit closer to home. Clad in prison stripes and their trademark Red Energy Dome hats, the “Whip It” band’s performance was even made into a movie of its own with Butch Devo and the Sundance Gig. Chris Smith, director of “The Pool”, winner of the Special Jury Prize for Singularity of Vision (Photo by Fred Hayes/WireImage for Sundance Film Festival)

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