Future Language Documents the Unbelievable Life of No-Wave Space Cadet Von LMO

by Dave Segal
“Everything is fake. Nothing is real,” says New York No Wave musician Von LMO at the start of director Lori Felker’s Future Language, which screens at Northwest Film Forum tonight and tomorrow night. This ethos sets the tone for the documentary, an un-slick cinematic fan letter by a woman who capped her 18-year obsession with her subject by completing this scrappy movie.
With his black, sigil-covered shirt and an enigmatic amulet around his neck lending his quasi-