Tramps!

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Tramps!

2022

1h 44m

Documentary

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TRAMPS! is a feature-length documentary focusing on the iconic fashion and musical movement The New Romantics AKA "Blitz Kids" from London, England. Centering around key members of this movement, the film recounts the tale of how this group of outsiders helped reinvent London's infamous underground art community, gaining them worldwide notoriety. From the original squatted communes like "The Exploding Galaxy" in the 1960's, to the pre-punk art movement and confrontational performance work in squatted industrial spaces in the 1970s', the short-lived punk movement from 1977 to 1979, up to the flamboyant "Blitz Kids" that established the more well known moniker of the "New Romantics" in the 1980's, we look at how this long-established sense of hedonism was unexpectedly stomped out by the AIDS crisis, while certain elements of it flooded out from the underground and completely took over mainstream through rave culture in the 1990's and points towards the exasperated London of today.

Cath Clarke

Guardian

In hindsight there’s something quaint, endearing even, about the New Romantics mentality.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 7, 2023

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

AWFJ.org

Fiercely political, Tramps! is a radical defence of art in the purest sense and stands proudly as a lens through which to frame a desperately needed contemporary reassessment of current attitudes towards the relationship between art and commerce.

Feb 28, 2023

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

[A] thrilling, far-reaching kaleidoscopic collage of a documentary...

Mar 28, 2022

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Daniel Allen

Loud and Clear Reviews

The closing film at this year’s BFI Flare Festival, TRAMPS!, is an audio-visual whirlwind and a beguiling documentary that pays tribute to the New Romantic scene.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 25, 2024

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Tramps!—a title that never makes much contextual sense—shows the New Romantics to have been a lot more compelling than the cultural footnote they fast got reduced to.

Jun 25, 2024

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Nadine Whitney

InSession Film

Tramps! reminds the audience that there are those who will never Fade to Grey.

Jun 25, 2024

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TRAMPS! is a feature-length documentary focusing on the iconic fashion and musical movement The New Romantics AKA "Blitz Kids" from London, England. Centering around key members of this movement, the film recounts the tale of how this group of outsiders helped reinvent London's infamous underground art community, gaining them worldwide notoriety. From the original squatted communes like "The Exploding Galaxy" in the 1960's, to the pre-punk art movement and confrontational performance work in squatted industrial spaces in the 1970s', the short-lived punk movement from 1977 to 1979, up to the flamboyant "Blitz Kids" that established the more well known moniker of the "New Romantics" in the 1980's, we look at how this long-established sense of hedonism was unexpectedly stomped out by the AIDS crisis, while certain elements of it flooded out from the underground and completely took over mainstream through rave culture in the 1990's and points towards the exasperated London of today.

Director: Kevin Hegge
Producer: Kevin Hegge, Brian Robertson
Screenwriter: Kevin Hegge, Kevin Hegge
Production Co: Low End
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 44m

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