Headspace

Filmed over the course of three years and in 10 countries, Jethro Senger's documentary about international techno/rave culture is a slick but shallow mix of trippy computer animation, footage of ecstatic crowds grooving to techno beats, and interviews of mind-boggling vapidity. The gist of dozens of interviews with ravers is that dance music is a lifestyle, the thudding backbeat echoes the pulse of the human heart, and the music is in tune to the rhythm of the universe. The scene is all about love and community and if you strung up enough speakers in a war zone and started playing hypnotic techno, soldiers would drop their weapons and surrender to the beat. To his cr...