IN CINEMA
Made You Look: H2O (Hip-Hop Odyssey)
CASSETTE: A DOCUMENTARY MIXTAPE
Thursday, December 12th at 7PM
Tickets: $15 General Admission/ $7 Reduced Price
Presented with the Hip-Hop Education Center
Zack Taylor, 2016, 87 min.
Now 90 years old and living out a secluded retirement in Holland, cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won’t die. Rock veterans like Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore, and Ian MacKaye join a legion of young bands still releasing music on tape to help Lou on his journeys to remember.
Celebrating the rich history and influence of the audiotape, CASSETTE plays out like a mixtape, compiled to honor a revolutionary musical format. Since its introduction in 1963, the cassette has played an important role as music’s first universally recordable medium. And while it has been obsolete for over 20 years, it forever changed the listener’s relationship to music.
Post-screening discussion with Zack Taylor and Regan Sommer McCoy!
henry rollins
ZACK TAYLOR is a commercial videographer living in New York City. He studied film at the Newport Film School in Wales. Cassette is his first feature film. Zack began making mixtapes for friends as a teenager. Cassette grew out of a nostalgia not only for the medium, but for the process of compiling music for other people.
REGAN SOMMER McCOY is an NYC-based curator, community archivist, and arts administrator. Sommer is the Chief Curator of the Mixtape Museum, an initiative that encourages the research, archiving, preservation, and data analysis of mixtapes. Her mixtape scholarship has been supported by appointments with Columbia University, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, and a 2022 research grant from the Association for Recorded Collections (ARSC). She is the ‘23 Visiting Hip Hop Scholar at Virginia Union University and an inaugural ‘23 ARSC Awards for Independent Initiatives awardee. Sommer consults and advises the Black Beauty Archives, Museum of Pop Culture’s Hip-Hop Collection, and Five Mics: The Hip-Hop Trading Game. She is on staff at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Creative Social Impact, curating BAM Archive’s Hip Hop Collection.
