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Hot Sugar's Cold World

03/13/2015

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1hr 27min

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Music

,Documentary

STORY

Nick Koenig, aka Hot Sugar, is in a hot mess. Considered a modern-day Mozart, the young electronic musician/producer records sounds from everyday life—from hanging up payphone receivers to Hurricane Sandy rain—and chops, loops and samples them into Grammy Award–nominated beats. He’s living the life every musician dreams of, complete with an internet-phenom girlfriend, rapper/singer “Kitty.” But when she dumps him, Hot Sugar is set adrift. Fleeing to Paris, he tries to regroup, searching for new sounds and a sense of self. Filmmaker Adam Lough mixes scenes of Hot Sugar at work on his vintage recording devices with surprising soul-searching reflections he offers to the camera. As tweets and posts about the broken couple blow up on the internet, Hot Sugar’s road trip presses onward, revealing even more exotic layers of the man and his music. Fun and flash, this lyrical journey offers audiences a fascinating peek into a modern artist’s creative process.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Shelby Fero
  • Nick Koenig
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Jim Jarmusch
  • Martin Starr

    Directors

  • David Gordon Green
  • Adam Bhala Lough

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Rough House Pictures

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Shelby Fero

    Self

    Nick Koenig

    Self

    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Self

    Martin Starr

    Self

    Rachel Trachtenburg

    Self

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