August 12: SpokAnarchy Screening @ Brickhouse Bar & Grill | Columbia Gorge International Film Fest
From our sponsors at SpokAnarchy:
Spokanarchy Screening
Friday, August 12
9:15 p.m. | FREE | 21+
Brickhouse Bar & Grill
109 West 15th Street, in Vancouver
SpokAnarchy!, a new feature-length documentary chronicling the emergence of the punk rock scene in Spokane in the 1980s, will screen as an Official Selection of the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival. SpokAnarchy! will screen at 9:15 PM, Friday August 12, 2011 at the Brickhouse Bar and Grill, 109 West 15th Street, Vancouver, WA, with bands from the film playing immediately afterwards.
The history of the punk rock movement is well known, less served is the story of punk in the smaller, out-of-the-way cities and towns, where challenging the dominant mainstream culture was even more daunting, and often downright dangerous.
Before MTV, the Internet and cell phones, Spokane seemed a long way from anywhere. A small group of bored teenagers banded together to make art and music and live a lifestyle that tested the social and moral boundaries of conservative America.
Out of this unlikely burg a decade’s worth of undiscovered music and art erupted, by the likes of whom went on to be in noteworthy and underground bands such as TOOL, Motorcycle Boy, Sandy Duncan’s Eye, Stompbox, Cattle Prod, artists and performers like T.J. Wilcox and Zamora the Torture King, and even Charlie Schmidt, Keyboard Cat’s creator!
This coming-of-age story becomes a coming-of-middle-age story as the scene’s survivors take an unflinching look at their past and how their lives were shaped by those years of music and mayhem.
The film was two years in production with over 50 interviews shot in New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Astoria, Seattle, and Spokane. Interviews are coupled with archival footage and with a soundtrack that draws on a decade's worth of undiscovered music. Soundtrack to be released on Flat Field Records to coincide with the film's premiere.
SpokAnarchy! has also been named as an Official Selection at the Landlocked Film Festival in Iowa City, Iowa. The film's world premiere will be at the Garland Theater on Saturday, August 6th, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. in Spokane, WA.
