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Punk Movies

By: Pedro Tavares

Despite the casual use to which the term “punk cinema” has been put since the inception of punk rock, the concept, as reimagined in this essay, denotes an identifiable aesthetic, bolstered by a correlative economics. Adherents of this model demand of cinema what punks have demanded of music—that it encourage production, in any medium. Punk cinema employs an open, writerly aesthetic, engages with history, and critiques its own commodification. It can be negatively defined as non-Hollywoodized, where a Hollywood aesthetic demands a closed, readerly text unconcerned with history and obfuscating its position within the relations of production. Punk films, such as “The Punk Rock Movie” (Don Letts, 1978) and “Rude Boy” (Jack Hazan, 1980), foreground their conditions of production, which stand as material signifiers of the possibility of making music or film, participating in critique, or doing both at once. (Stacy Thompson)

A bit of punk philosophy – music and behavior on films through music itself, No Wave cinema, 90’s anarchy-surreal form and now, the digital era. Have fun!

SID & NANCY (1986) DIRECTED BY ALEX COX

Not on MUBI:

PUNK: THE EARLY YEARS (1978)
URBAN STRUGGLE (1981)
PUNKS – OS FILHOS DA NOITE (1982)
LA VINGANÇA DE LOS PUNKS (1991)
STREET PUNK – THE MOVIE (2000)
THE BOOT FACTORY (2000)
ONE STEP TO THE END OF THE WORLD: 20 YEARS OF PUNK CULTURE IN SÃO PAULO (2001)
RISE ABOVE: THE TRIBE 8 DOCUMENTARY (2004)
BOTINADA (2006)
REFUSED ARE FUCKING DEAD (2006)
THE PUNKS ARE ALRIGHT (2006)
THE DAY THE COUNTRY DIED (2007)
CHAOSTAGE – WE ARE PUNKS! (2009)
BEIJING PUNK (2010)
INOCENTES – 30 ANOS (2011)
EAST PUNK MEMORIES (2012)
FILMAGE (2012)
MUDHONEY: I AM NOW (2012)

Books:
- Alex Cox: Film Anarchist
- Destroy All Movies
- Philosophy of Punk: More than Noise
- The Encyclopedia of Punk by Brian Cogan
- Please Kill Me
- Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes
- X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker
- Get in the Van
- Dance of Days
- From the Velvets to the Voidoids
- Dharma Punx
- We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A Punk
- Sex Pistols: 90 days at EMI
- Rotten
- Lipstick Traces
- Commando
- Hey Ho, Let’s Go

 

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