LLik Your Idols

This comprehensive and artful retrospective takes a look at the seminal punk scene one movement at time, focusing first on the no-wave bands of the early 1970s and then on such ?80s successors as Sonic Youth. KILL YOUR IDOLS is comprised largely of rare and firsthand footage.

LLIK YOUR IDOLS plunges you right into the New York undergound scene of the nineteen-eighties. Through steamy excerpts, exclusive interviews (RICHARD KERN, LYDIA LUNCH, JOE COLEMAN, THURSTON MOORE...), in-your-face performances and previously unreleased photographs, LLIK YOUR IDOLS retraces the chaotic story of transgressive cinema. In New York, in the beginning of the nineteen-eighties, this spontaneous movement, monster child of Reaganism, definitively broke free of the codes set by avantgardism and the classic conventions of storytelling. As ephemeral as a suicide, as sensual as it is sexual, transgressive cinema created for itself improbable links between WARHOL, DADAISM and THE PUNK ATTITUDE. KERN, ZED, LUNCH, STARK and COLEMAN, antiheroes of a lost generation, were its leading actors. SONIC YOUTH, THE SWANS, F?TUS and THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS were its leading bands.

Documentary | Music | Music (General) | Punk Rockers

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