Hot Sugar's Cold World (2015)
87 min
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.
- Release date
- March 13, 2015
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Frank Andrews as Psychic
- Danny Brown as Self
- Shelby Fero as Self
- Jim Jarmusch as Self
- Nick Koenig as Self
- Martin Starr as Self
- Himanshu Suri as Self
- Rachel Trachtenburg as Self
- Neil deGrasse Tyson as Self
- Victor Vazquez as Self
Crew
- Adam Bhala Lough · Director
- Adam Bhala Lough · Writer
- Hunter Stephenson · Writer
- David Gordon Green · Producer
- Adam Bhala Lough · Producer
- Hunter Stephenson · Producer
- Nick Koenig · Composer
- Patrice Lucien Cochet · Cinematographer
- Christopher Messina · Cinematographer
- Elliot Blitzerhoof · Editor
- Aaron Morris · Editor