News - King Crimson

An official selection for the 2022 SXSW film festival, with a world premiere in Austin in March, watch the official Trailer for the long awaited documentary In The Court of the Crimson King by Toby Amies...

Press Release

What began as a traditional documentary about the legendary band King Crimson as it turned 50, mutated into an exploration of time, death, family, and the transcendent power of music to change lives; but with jokes.

King Crimson is a band that people literally are dying to be in. In the Court of the Crimson King is a dark, comic film for anyone who wonders whether it is worth sacrificing everything for just a single moment of transcendence. For over 50 years Robert Fripp, also famous for his work with Bowie and Eno, has overseen a unique creative environment in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary demands on the band’s members - only alleviated by the applause of an audience whose adoration threatens to make their lives even harder.

It's a rewarding and perilous space in which the extraordinary is possible, nothing is certain, and not everyone survives intact.

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