Logan Lynn will be hosting a special screening of his award-winning documentary The Pain and The Power by filmmaker Cai Indermaur at Tin Pan Theater in Bend on September 11. The film has already received national and international festival recognition, including several Best Documentary wins. A personal portrait tracing a 30-year career forged at the intersection of queerness, faith, addiction, trauma, and self-reinvention, the project will be released under Portugal. The Man’s KNIK Records’ new LGBTQ+ imprint, PortuGAY.
The Pain and The Power is an unflinching documentary portrait of artist, activist, and survivor Logan Lynn. 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, music videos, 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.
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.
Named Best Debut Documentary at the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival (Greece), Best LGBTQ+ Feature at the Milan Indie Film Festival (Italy), Best Documentary and Best LGBTQ+ Film at the Global Visionaries Film Festival (Singapore), and Best First-Time Director at the Berlin Indie Film Festival and the Portugal Indie Film Festival, 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. Check out additional festival recognition and official selections here.
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).
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.
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.
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.
The screening will feature an in-person appearance by Lynn, where he will participate in a Q&A after the film. More info is available here.
Watch the official The Pain and The Power trailer here.
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