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PunkNotRock Final Installment
by David Wilson
Where did I leave off? Antioch? Probably. It's sort of a blur at this point and becoming more of one all the time. Home seems like a pretty good idea right now ...
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PunkNotRock Tour: New England Nites
by David Wilson
"So, from DC we head North. And the rain begins. It's a constant. Philadelphia is a damp Monday night show with a hippy-core band from Maine called Cerebus Shoal...."
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The Insound! True Hollywood Story: LA Independent Film Festival
by Michael Galinsky
Insound's Mike G. heads to Tinseltown for schmoozing, boozing and wet t-shirt contests in the shameless belly of Indiewood. Hop in your Hum-Vee, slap on some silicone implants and join the fun!
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Lost Fest Found: Adventures in Punk Rock Philly
by Michael Galinsky & Ed Halter
Mike Galinksy and Ed Halter of the Insound Cinema trek to Philly for Lost Film Fest 3.0 and find punk rock, politics, Ian MacKaye and an audience member who tried to beat up a director.
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Experimental Movies Today
by Nick Zedd
A scathing and brilliant critique of the instututions of avant-garde film by underground film's premiere voice of dissent
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Digital Villain - Interview with Philipp Virus
by Alexander Laurence
The Virus has been unleashed! An interview from this year's NYUFF with video maker Philipp Virus, who has worked with Alec Empire and Digital Hardcore bands for the past seven years. Wunderbar!
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featured directors

Ian Kerkhof

If you're idea of "edgy film" is "American Pie," try a hot and nasty slice of Ian Kerkhof. Europe's most controversial, award-winning director and digital video pioneer, Kerkhof makes movies about Manson, rape, snuff, art, drugs and fascism.
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Tara Cooper: Live and Let Ride

Showing at NYUFF.
"Live and Let Ride is a documentary all about girls that skateboard. Through skateboarding footage, interviews and music the documentary portrays the girls that are out there skating everyday yet remain largely ignored by the media and sports world...includes interviews and skating of Cara-Beth Burnside, Jen O'Brien, Jesse Van Roechoudt, Jodi McDonald, Patty Segovia and covers events such as the All Girl Skate Jam and The Juice Magazine Five and Alive at Riverside Park in NYC. The video also looks at Rookie Skateboards, the all girl-owned skateboard company based in Chinatown, NYC." - T. Cooper

DJ Knowledge: Style Writing from the Underground

A film about the art of grafitti. Insound also offers a companion book, which is a "history and analysis from those who have lived and made this movement what it is today...a blueprint and the links that provide, compose, and inspire an extensive, traditional chain, upheld and regarded as 'STYLE'."

Patrick Hasson: Waiting

Showing in this month's WILLIAMSBURG BROOKLYN FILM FESTIVAL, WAITING tracks waiter Sean McNutt behind the kitchen doors, going where no film has dared to go before. The film features a whacked-out performance by indie-film-guru and Hoverground co-founder Will Keenan (Trick, Love God), who brings his extreme brand of comedy to the role of Sean McNutt. The cast includes Troma topper Lloyd Kaufman (Orgazmo), former adult film star Ron Jeremy (Detroit City Rocks), and Kerri Kenney (Comedy Central's Viva Variety) as Sean's ex-lover-turned-dominatrix in a performance not soon to be forgotten.

James Dow and Clint Ricketts: Malika
Label: Velvet Damone Productions

A lovely film about three sock puppets, a friendly giant, a robot and a guy named Brad.

Jukeboxer: Insound Presents: A Night with Jukeboxer
Director: Suki Hawley

Insound's own Laris gives and gets here, as Jukeboxer (he's the drummer) is captured live, and he interviews his own bandmates. Talk about multipurpose...

Krulik and Heyn: Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Probably the most traded and talked about underground video of all time. Teen burnouts brilliantly documented in their natural habitat - a Maryland parking lot outside a 1986 Judas Priest concert.

Jonathan Reiss: Better Living Through Circuitry
Label: Seventh Art Releasing

"BETTER LIVING THROUGH CIRCUITRY is a rare insightful look at the electronic dance community and the culture it has produced. A cross-section of the techno subculture is represented as ravers, DJ's and musicians speak for themselves about their music and ideals. Insightful and entertaining, the film presents such dynamic aspects of rave culture as empowerment through technology, the DIY ethic, and the flowering of a new spirituality embracing transcendence through sound and rhythm." Featuring such artists as DJ Spooky, DJ Keoki, Roni Size, The Crystal Method, Electric Skychurch and Moby, the film premieres in New York City on May 26th at Cinema Village. Check out the website at www.circuitry.org

Reynold Reynolds: The Drowning Room / Interview with Reynold Reynolds
Director: Reynold Reynolds

A short interview with Reynold Reynolds about his award-winning watery film The Drowning Room, which featured at Sundance, NYUFF, SXSW, LAIFF, and moe. Interviewed by Esther Bell (GodAss).

Shipping News: Insound Presents: A Night with Shipping News
Director: Suki Hawley
Label: Quarterstick

Watch Shipping News live, and get a fun filled interview, including their roots as a talent-show band, to boot.

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Abel Ferrara: Driller Killer DVD
Label: Cult Epics

Mr. Ferrara was responsible for "The Bad Leiutenant". This is an eariler work which still has that bad boy vibe.

David Markey: Desperate Teenage Love Dolls

This is nearly impossible to find. LA funny punk. Red Kross. Dave Markey also made the Sonic Youth film, "The Year Punk Broke"

Merzbow: Beyond Ultra Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow
Director: Ian Kerkhof
Label: Insound & Allegri Film

The first home video release from Insound! Badboy digital auteur Ian Kerkhof's portrait of noise artist Merzbow mixes transgressive travelogues of Japan with interviews and concert footage.

Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski: Fruit of the Vine
Label: Nichols/Charnoski Production

A super-8 documentary on pool skating and American culture featuring footage and interviews from Tony Alva, Lance Mountain, Steve Alba, Tony Farmer, Steve Bailey and many more

Nico B: Pig
Label: Cult Epics

"A film depicting the relationship between killer and victim where all lines cross, blending fantasy and reality and longing with desperation. Underground film, involves graphic violence with no use of special effects, shocking and revealing the inside of a killer's mind" -- Nico B.

Various Artists: Black Eye Video Comp.
Director: Tae Won Yu Phil Elvrum Clarity Miller
Label: K Records

K Records video compilation from directors Clarity Miller and Tae Won Yu, featuring music from Old Time Relijun, The Crabs, Bronwyn, Dub Narcotic, D+ and the Crabs. Click here to watch the videos on this tape

The Video Aktivists: Untitled #29.95

The latest offering from the anti-corporate prankster activists at Rtmark. A video about video, and about who controls art, in the age of high-priced video art stars like Matthew Barney and Alex Bag. "Tells the history of the commercial art establishment's attempts to turn video into an object like sculpture or a painting in order to increase its value in the marketplace...Untitled #29.95 calls for high-priced limited edition videos to be 'liberated' from commercial art galleries and given to the internet." - The Video Aktivists

featured events

Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival

International, competitive 2000 edition: 5 days, 40 film premieres from 18 countries. mission: to promote purity and integrity in the context of the arts....
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