Today's EDM festival scene hasn't yet yielded too many notable feature films. But the broader world of club music has served as a setting for some fine movies. Here are a few of the best.
"24 Hour Party People," 2002
The story of the founding of Manchester's Factory Records, the movies starts at the tail end of punk and ends on the packed dancefloors of the legendary club Hacienda, where everything that could go wrong did. Steve Coogan as label founder Tony Wilson is drolly hilarious, and the post-punk, proto-rave soundtrack is untouchable.
"Victoria," 2015
This Berlin-set thriller was famous for its one-take structure, but few other movies have captured the languid joy, late-night delirium and catastrophic decision-making that can come from a weekend bender in the underground club scene.
"Spring Breakers," 2012
From the first notes of Skrillex's "Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites," Harmony Korine's neon-noir uses EDM sounds and images to make crushing beers on a Florida beach feel like existential horror.
"Human Traffic," 1999
There are movies about drugs, and there are movies that feel like drugs. This is the latter. It's raver characters are all looking to escape life's tedium via psychedelic dancefloors. But the soundtrack and pacing hit all the peaks and valleys of an all-night romp. One of the most empathetic and on-point movies made about clubbing.
