Interview with MONKS director Dietmar Post

“Like Mickey Mouse Club or Sesame Street”

By Michael Schuh

In 1996, Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios began working on a documentary about a long-forgotten German Beat generation band “Monks - The Transatlantic Feedback”. The five band members were all GIs who were stationed at the time in Gelnhausen, Germany. Finding material and getting interviews turned into a mammoth project. Ten years later the documentary was finished.

Ten years later the documentary was finished. (more…)

All About The Monks

The New York Times about the Monks

The joyously hostile songs on the Monks’ 1966 album, “Black Monk Time” - newly reissued on the Light in the Attic label - would be essential, strange 1960s artifacts even without the band’s back story. (more…)

Latest From the Makers of MONKS - THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK

Check out what Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios - the duo responsible for the acclaimed music doc MONKS - THE TRANSATLANTIC FEEDBACK - have just released:

KLANGBAD: AVANT-GARDE IN THE MEADOWS(GER/SP/USA - 85 min - 2009) (more…)