The Pain and the Power w/Q&A
<div>The Pain and The Power is an unflinching documentary portrait of artist, activist, and survivor Logan Lynn, tracing a 30-year career forged at the intersection of queerness, faith, addiction, trauma, and self-reinvention. Structured around the songs from Lynn’s latest record of the same name, the film treats music not as background but as a living character.</div><div><br></div><div>Beginning in rural Nebraska and Texas inside a fundamentalist Christian world hostile to any type of difference, the film follows Lynn’s early sense of displacement, religious trauma, and abuse, and the ways secrecy and fear shaped both identity and survival. Through intimate interviews with Lynn, and decades of archival footage and home movies, the film charts a restless trajectory: early success, underground acclaim, addiction, public collapse, and the slow, deliberate work of rebuilding a life on one’s own terms.</div><div><br></div><div>Behind the scenes footage from early music videos, vintage tour clips, and present-day studio conversations collide with moments of humor, tenderness, and brutal honesty. The result is neither a redemption arc nor a nostalgia piece, but a meditation on what it means to outlive the versions of yourself that no longer serve you. </div><div><br></div><div>The Pain and The Power asks what remains after belief systems fail, relationships end, and the spotlight moves on; and how art can transform damage into something communal, generous, and alive.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Film screening will be followed by a live conversation / audience Q&A, and soundtrack preview + vinyl, cassette, etc. sales</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Original Motion Picture Soundtrack</b></div><div>The original motion picture soundtrack to The Pain and The Power is a reckoning. Written during a period of profound letting-go, the album captures Logan Lynn in the act of releasing people, beliefs, and identities that once felt inseparable. The album features collaborations with indie pop legend Kyle Andrews, as well as Brian Fortson (Classtronaut), and Dale Hiscock (Endless Atlas). </div><div><br></div><div>Lyrically, the songs circle themes of loss, forgiveness, and the grief that accompanies change. These are not breakup songs in the traditional sense; they are goodbyes. The record is a farewell to childhood faith, to love, to the illusion that holding on is the same as being strong, and to an idea of a life — and a country — that perhaps no longer exists.</div><div><br></div><div>The record closes with a cover of Paul Williams’ Rainbow Connection, reframed as a quiet act of hope and solidarity, particularly for LGBTQ+ communities navigating renewed hostility and erasure. In the shadow of literal destruction (the fire that destroyed Burn Money Music Studio immediately after the first half of the record’s completion) the album stands as both an elegy and a continuation: proof that creation can persist even after the ground disappears beneath you.</div><div><br></div><div>The Pain and The Power is not about healing as an endpoint. It is about learning to live honestly inside the aftermath; and finding freedom in what you no longer need to carry.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>About KNIK Records’ PORTUGAY Division</b></div><div>KNIK Records is a community-driven, mentorship-focused, record label and artist development organization. Founded by Grammy Award-winning rock band Portugal. The Man, the label is bucking industry standards and shaking up the status quo. KNIK pushes the music and entertainment industries forward, both from an art standpoint, as well as label ethos. </div><div><br></div><div>The LGBTQ+ division of KNIK Records spans genres and aims to platform LGBTQ+ voices during a time when Queer, Trans and two-spirited artists are being dropped by their labels, silenced by the media, attacked by their fellow citizens, and dehumanized by government leaders. This label believes in the inherent value of these artists and voices, and knows that society improves when LGBTQ+ people are happy, safe, loved, celebrated, and at the big table where we belong.</div>Documentary, MusicPT1H40M2026-09-18Logan Lynn
Cai Indermaur
The Pain and the Power w/Q&A"The Pain and the Power w/Q&A"Showtimes
September 18, 7:00 pm
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