Queen Kong (2016)

Anyone remember the anthology horror film Screamtime? How about Dealers, Britain's would be answer to Wall Street? Or Gregory's Two Girls, the perversely downbeat and largely forgotten sequel to Gregory's Girl? How about Hawks, the black comedy Timothy Dalton made between his two outings as James Bond? Who can claim to have seen the godawful King Kong spoof Queen Kong with Robin Askwith? Who remembers the Indiana Jones wannabee Sky Bandits? How about the crime caper featuring three members of pop group All Saints?

Olivier Carrié aka Uncle O chose to explore this effervescent and eclectic inter-zone for Cosmic Machine, The Sequel. A second opus that takes us a bit further in time to introduce us to the dark corners of a French musical landscape where recording studio workaholics like Jean-Pierre Massiera or Roger Roger produced endless strings of records that challenged the laws of gravity, where teenage heartthrob singer Alain Chamfort launched Araxis into space with a few synth notes, where drummer Cerrone enrolled in the Brigades Mondaines for the charms of a cover girl imagined by Gérard de Villiers and where the Anarchic System, The Peppers, Moon Birds or Arpadys dreamed of winning a one-way ticket to the moon.