Summer Cinema: Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt

“I wanted to make a doc that was in the spirit of this band who always went for it and never seemed to give a fuck what people might think.”

A documentary film about Butthole Surfers, the American psych-rock band formed in 1981 in San Antonio, Texas. Their shocking live performances were just as famous as their music. Their chaotic, drug-fuelled live shows took place in front of a projection screen showing raw 16mm film footage of medical autopsies and other bizarre and morbid scenes. Frontman Gibby Haynes would run around the stage, fire a shotgun loaded with blanks, use a megaphone to sing, and often set cymbals and other instruments on fire. They uniquely blended extreme punk with elements of pop, and in 1996 they surprisingly reached number one on the Billboard charts with the song “Pepper”.

Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt
Director: Tom Stern
USA, 2025, 106 min
in English without subtitles

Free Entry

Summer cinema returns to MeetFactory for the fourteenth time. A curated selection of eleven films will be screened in the Factory's backyard, as selected by the members of the venue's team. In June and July, the screenings begin at 9:30 p.m.; in August and September at 8:30 p.m. Before the film, the current exhibitions in MeetFactory Gallery and Kostka Gallery can be visited free of charge. A bar is available on site, and admission to all screenings is free.

More information can be found here.