Kill Your Idols
Scott Crary
Kill Your Idols (USA, 2004)
75 min - Beta - English.
Production: Hunger Artist Productions
Director Scott Crary's document Kill Your Idols is a thrilling, comprehensive guide to New York's buzzing downtown underground post-punk scene. Crary kicks things off with the birth of No Wave in the late 1970's, providing an angular rush with a priceless collection of live performances from Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Theoretical Girls and DNA. From this initial explosion of artistic energy, the film moves through the 1980's, passing the torch to Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth and Michael Gira of Swans, before crashlanding in the noisy Now! of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Dice, Liars, A.R.E. Weapons and the Gypsy stylings of Gogol Bordello. Interviews connect the threads between the past and the present, an ever-fertile scene is defined, celebrated and trashed with equal amounts of enthusiasm, and the creators of some of the most challenging rock music of all-time get to explain what they do, why they do it and where it's all heading.
Scott Crary
S.A. Crary was born on the island of Oahu in 1978. He learned how to march before he learned how to dance; he held a gun before he held a girl's hand. Crary now resides on the island of Manhattan, where he lives a hermetic life as a writer and visual artist. He began making films in 2001 and founded Hunger Artist Productions, a New York-based film production company, in 2005.
