911 presents:
Pop Culture Docs
Thursday, September 24th, 8pm
$5 / $3 (members)

Indie video makers frequently work without the benefits of budget, cast or crew. With these limitations, the easiest way to create compelling media is to shoot something dramatic that is happening right around you. On the fly or on the sly, quick and dirt y documentation of popular culture is both the method and the madness that we celebrate in this evening of zine freaks, pompous political pundits and metalheads.

Heavy Metal Parking Lot
by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn

This cult-favorite period-piece has had incredible grassroots distribution matched only by The Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee video. A favorite among reformed rockers, this work may just take you back. Picture yourself outside of the 1982 Hell Bent For Lea ther Judas Priest concert. Its a sticky hot night. Youre trying to to look cool in your parachute pants and leopard print shirt as you choke down a flat Miller High Life. Aqua Net is mingling with your hormone charged perspiration, dripping down your fore head and coating your contact lenses with a greasy film. Suddenly, some geek points a videocamera at you and thrusts a microphone in your hand. What do you do? You go nutzoid! Fifteen years later the video screens at a prickly little media arts center and you pretend you never heard of Rod Halford or KK Downing. We know that it was YOU that banged your head and we want you back. You simply must see this video!

Neil Diamond Parking Lot
by Jeff Krulik and John Heyn

After the remarkable phenomenon of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, the filmmakers returned to the same arena ten years later to document tamer but no less passionate fans milling around before a Diamond concert. Seeing the two side by side results in an amusing compare and contrast between the acid dropping teens of 86 and the Diet Pepsi clutching mid-lifers of 96. For the record, Neil Diamond rules. Sing it with me now, Sweeeeet Caroline, BAH, BAH, BAH!

Zined
by Marc Moscato

Yeah! Its done! I finally did it! A half our documentary about fanzines from around the world. Some call it educational, others humorous critics say its must see TV. I called it a royal pain in the ass to edit! Over 25 hours of interviews, conventions and other stuff have been condensed into the definitive video about fanzine culture. Interviews with Ape Fanzine, Maximum Rock n Roll, Riverside Art Scene, Highest Population of Rock Stars, The Salivation Army, Free Fixins, Psycho Moto, and more. Most certai nly not coming to a theater near you - In the artists own words

The Last Convention
by Steve Martini

Shot in the summer of 1996 at the Democratic National Convention, this nineteen minute video briefly takes a contrasting look at the divisive 1968 convention held in Chicago and the comparatively sedate setting of the more recent gathering. In addition to showing the apathetic state of protest, it also reveals that political conventions, past, present and future, are little more than live infomercials.