(en) There is No Authority But Yourself is a Dutch film directed by Alexander Oey documenting the history of anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archive footage of the band and interviews with former members Steve Ignorant, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher. As well as reflecting on the band's past the film focusses on their current activities, and includes footage of Rimbaud performing with Last Amendment at the Vortex jazz club in Hackney, a compost toilet building workshop and a permaculture course held at Dial House in the spring of 2006.
(en) Maybe you'll never get on the radio, maybe no one within any kind of music establishment will support you…but even if it's just within your group of friends, you can create your own culture. These words from Michael Muhammad Knight, an American Muslim and unofficial founder of the Taqwacore music scene, spell out the alienated, courageous autonomy of punk culture in bright colours. Knight is the focal point of Omar Majeed's explosive doc; the other subjects are a handful of American Muslim musicians who've been galvanized by Knight's book The Taqwacores. Caught in a tug of war between Western corporate permissiveness and a religion that's become hardened and constricting, these kids decide to grab guitars and change their reality. "In the so-called War of Civilizations, we're pointing the middle finger in both directions," says Knight near the beginning of the film. What follows certainly bears him out: 80 minutes of gleeful taboo-smashing, poignant soul-searching and loud, furious music.
If the Islamic punk scene grows into something major (and on the evidence of this movie, it likely will), Majeed and Knight will surely go down in history as its first big proponents and chroniclers. Catch it now and you can say that you were one of the first to be in on something really big.
(sk) Hudba bez ideológie, ponúkajúca autonómiu a priestor k vlastnému vyjadreniu. Tak vníma punkrock skupina mladých moslimov a moslimiek, tvoriacich niekoľko rôznych kapiel. Väčšinu z nich oslovila kniha Michaela Muhammada Knighta „The Taqwacores, punkový manifest“. Knight, konvertovaný moslim, a jeho priatelia zo skupiny The Kominas zorganizujú turné po amerických veľkomestách a neskôr koncertujú aj v Pakistane, kde sa snažia punkrock a vlastnú interpretáciu Koránu priblížiť tamojším moslimom.
(en) Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, SS Decontrol and the Dead Kennedys.
(cz) Dokument, mapující zrod a evoluci americké punkové scény v letech 1979 až 1986. Mimo interview s důležitými osobnostmi tohoto období (Bobby Steele z The Misfits, Keith Morris z Black Flag a The Circle Jerks, Brandon Cruz z Dead Kennedys) film obsahuje i živý materiál.
