We Intend to Cause Havoc
(2021, original release: 2019)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Utopia, 2019
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
12394288
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

The film follows the 21st Century formation of WE INTEND TO CAUSE HAVOC (W.I.T.C.H.), Zambia’s most popular rock band of the 1970s, and documents the life of its lead singer, Jagari, whose name is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger. Through the resurrection of a music that was forgotten by many and unheard by most, the film explores the life of a former African rockstar, and the excitement around the rediscovery of his music by a new generation of Western fans. Following Jagari's life from his birth in a mud-hut village, through to his Zambian superstardom in the 70s while playing the band's unique blend of heavy psychedelic rock and African rhythms we then delve into his private life, as an arrest and prison sentence in the 90s turned him into a religious devotee and a miner, until thanks to the film's events and collaborators he would perform in front of adoring crowds on his first ever European tour in 2017, 40 years after his last album was released

Film

In Process Record

Emmanuel, Jacco Gardner, JJ Whitefield, Nic Mauskovic, Patrick Mwondela, Stefan Lilov, Viktor Kasoma

Originally produced by Utopia in 2019

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits