Hot Sugar's Cold World (2015)
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.
Director:
Adam Bhala Lough
Writer:
Adam Bhala Lough
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Shelby Fero as Self |
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Nick Koenig as Self |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson as Self |
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Jim Jarmusch as Self |
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Martin Starr as Self |
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Rachel Trachtenburg as Self |
| Production | Hunter Stephenson | Producer |
| Production | Danny McBride | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Hunter Stephenson | Writer |
| Production | David Gordon Green | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jody Hill | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Adam Bhala Lough | Screenplay |
| Directing | Adam Bhala Lough | Director |
| Production | Adam Bhala Lough | Producer |
