Original Film Title: King Rocker
English Film Title: King Rocker
Directors Name: Michael Cumming
Writers Name: Stewart Lee
Producers: James Nicholls
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Country of Filming: United Kingdom
Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
Film Description: Comedian Stewart Lee, and director Michael Cumming (Brass Eye, Toast of London), investigate a missing piece of punk history: Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult Birmingham bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, has survived under the radar for over four decades. But how, if at all, does Robert want to be remembered? The anti-rockumentary King Rocker weaves the story of Birmingham’s undervalued underdog autodidact into that of the city’s forgotten public sculpture of King Kong, eschewing the celebrity interview and archive-raid approach for a free-associating bricolage of Indian food, bewildered chefs, vegetable gardening, prescription medicines, pop stardom and pop art.
