1. Scott Crary is an American film director, producer and writer, best known for having directed, produced, filmed and edited the film Kill Your Idols, a documentary examining three decades of New York art punk bands.
22 Facts About Scott Crary
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Scott Crary served on the jury of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival alongside Alan Cumming, Whoopi Goldberg, Darren Arronofsky, Tom Wolfe, Damon Dash, Jeff Bezos, and others.
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In 2007, Scott Crary directed the music video for the song "Story Goes First" by the band Katamine.
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In 2011, Scott Crary produced an episode of the PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by America Ferrara.
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In 2013, Scott Crary's film, Kill Your Idols, was included in the permanent archives of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Scott Crary served as a producer on the 2017 film Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution, a feature documentary on Queercore directed by Yony Leyser.
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In 2018, Scott Crary produced Fire Music, a feature documentary on free jazz, directed by Tom Surgal and featuring Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Prince Lasha, Carla Bley, Bobby Bradford, Sonny Simmons, and others.
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On January 3,2019, Scott Crary was announced as producer of an upcoming feature documentary on Jeffrey Lee Pierce and his band The Gun Club.
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Scott Crary has been exhibited at numerous museums and art institutions internationally.
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Scott Crary's work has been presented at the Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center in New Orleans, the Pera Museum in Istanbul, and London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
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In 2013, Scott Crary announced he had begun authoring "a book of illustrated short stories" called Children Remember.
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The title of the book is an allusion to the song of the same name by the band Circus Mort, which was fronted by Michael Gira who later formed Swans, a band featured in Scott Crary's film Kill Your Idols.
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Scott Crary released a number of self-produced mixtapes, which are notable for featuring some of the earliest appearances of artists like El-P, Mos Def, and Eminem, as well as original freestyles by The Roots, KRS-One, and Jeru The Damaja.
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In 2006, the Belgian graphic design agency Kidnap Your Designer chose its name as a reference to Scott Crary's film Kill Your Idols.
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In 2013, Scott Crary was included in the books Resonances: Noise and Contemporary Music, published by Bloomsbury Publishing, and The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop, published by Routledge.
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Scott Crary was included in the 2014 book Fight Back: Punk, Politics and Resistance, published by Manchester University Press.
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In 2015, Scott Crary was included in the book Tranquillo, non importa, published in Italy by Edizioni Sette Citta.
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In February 2016, Norwegian band Karokh premiered the song "Boogies", inspired by Scott Crary's film Kill Your Idols.
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In 2020, Scott Crary was included in Jonathan Rhodes Lee's book Film Music in the Sound Era, published by Routledge.
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Scott Crary has a dog named Kafka, after the author Franz Kafka.
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Scott Crary is the great-great-great-great-grandson of 19th century poet and abolitionist Oringe Smith Crary.
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Scott Crary is cousin to geophysicist and Arctic explorer Albert Paddock Crary, the first person to have set foot on both the North and South Poles.