Death By Audio, an underground art and music venue, is forced to close in 2014. The film focuses on the struggles of maintaining a community in the face of Brooklyn property development, hostile construction workers, and a one billion-dollar company.
Direction
Conboy lived it, so every frame bleeds authentic desperation.
Sound
The noise bands sound like venues dying — perfect audio metaphor.
Editing
Concert chaos collides with construction drone — masterful tonal whiplash.
Director
Matthew Conboy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Death By Audio was literally IN the Vice Media building; they were tenants until Vice expanded and evicted them. The documentary director was also the venue's co-founder.
This captures peak Brooklyn 2014 — right before every 'cool neighborhood' became an algorithm. The bands shown (A Place to Bury Strangers, Lightning Bolt) defined a specific DIY era that's now museumified.
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