SpokAnarchy! is a feature-length documentary about the rise of the
punk rock scene in the conservative and culturally barren 1980s of Spokane,
WA.
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
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