It's All Gonna Break

Event Description

Stephen Chung’s energetic film gives viewers an insider’s view of not just the rise of one of Canada’s best-loved bands of the millennium, but also a tectonic shift for Toronto’s cultural landscape. Along with present-day interviews of members of Broken Social Scene, Chung revisits candid footage he shot of the musicians as the freewheeling indie-rock collective first began to cohere in a series of homes and clubs in the early 2000s. Of course, none of them knew that the songs they were creating together in such a spirit of joy and camaraderie would soon earn them a worldwide audience. As potent as Chung’s film as a celebration of Broken Social Scene and the many other music-makers in their orbit – including Metric, Feist, Stars and Jason Collett – it’s just as memorable for how it captures a moment in the life of the city before its own transformation.