Air Guitar Nation Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 81 mins
- Year produced:
- 2006
- Director:
- Alexandra Lipsitz
- Cast:
- Peter Cilella
- Dan Crane
- Adam Crystal
The world Air Guitar Championships had been quietly taking place in Finland for seven years before the US woke up to them. In 2003 the stakes were raised when Americans finally embraced the “instrument” – and documentary director Alexandra Lipsitz was there to record the evolution of the phenomenon. While much of the film affectionately records the sheer daftness of grown men pretending to rock out, something more touching and universal also emerges. You could almost say that “to air is human”!
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Fascinating facts
Every August, the Air Guitar World Championships bring thousands of fans all the way to Oulu, Finland to see the world's best air guitarists battle it out for 60 seconds of mock stardom.
The music of rock bands The Who, Queen, The Hives, Kiss and Motorhead all features in Air Guitar Nation as raw material for its “stars” to strut their stuff to.