Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Desolation center / directed and produced by Stuart Swezey ; co-producer, Mariska Leyssius ; written by Stuart Swezey & Tyler Hubby ; Mu Productions LLC.

Publisher, Date:

Warren, NJ : Passion River, [2020]

Description:

1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

The previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollapalooza, and Coachella, collective experiences that have become key elements of popular culture in the 21st century. The feature documentary splices interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Redd Kross, Einst|rzende Neubauten, Survival Research Laboratories, and more.

Subjects:

Punk culture -- California, Southern.

Punk rock music -- California, Southern.

Rock music festivals -- California, Southern.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Swezey, Stuart, film director.

Hubby, Tyler, writer, editor

Farrell, Perry, interviewee.