Pain, History and Violence: Punk Revolt

However, the short circuit would explode Los AngelesWhen other more dangerous and toxic bands appear (Fear, germs) who take up the challenge and relaunch: towards i nirvanaI Sonic Youth, the nineties… But they challenged each other from the very beginning. His are temporary records and films, he happily ignores the arrogant self-sufficiency of the author’s product. Punk music and cinema have always known that they lack breath, that they “Little machines of insurrection and self-aggrandizement where nothing could be done except to wallow in desperation or a suicidal armed movement

(Roberto Silvestri).

They arrived a moment after the first illusion was shattered, and understood, albeit confusedly, how and by whom the great rock’n’roll scam had been started: In music, as in cinema, it is always others who decide what should happen., In the summer of 1977, punk had reached its peak. Leadership Pistol and let’s ConflictUK punk band storms the rock establishment, demanding radical change and giving voice the anger of the boys who had gathered around him (Punk Army).

When Punk Hit Rock Bottom: End of Season

Then, within a year, Many of the heroes of that toxic season hit rock bottom: Disappearance of groups, confusion, disillusionment, hatred of rockbiz conspiracies. any (I Conflict) remains alive; others, such as me sex pistol

, Self-explosion in a blaze of glory; still others, evening 69collapse precisely on those contradictions which he himself set in motion. And this is cinema, like never before, that documents it all. A cinema that comes late, but it is there, it is in the front row during the Kings Road riots, the races in Camden Town, the wild jubilee rallies, the arrests, the Notting Hill Jamaican Carnival, especially the concerts. All locations in London.

From the top of the camera tripod it is easy to see which side dead capital and living labor are on, which side the will and open rebellion are leading. Dead capital exists on the stage, made up of amplifiers, machines, programs; Whereas Live work tops the stalls in a bouncing wave of boys

, is composed of dance (mosh), with behavior somewhere between sweating, spitting, and tearing. There, on stage and in the audience, there was anger and energy for real change, as had not been in youth culture and rock for years.