UK Tour: 1-16 October 2005
Newcastle Upon Tyne, London, Sheffield, Glasgow, Bristol
UK Premiere of works by the LA-based Independent Filmmaker
As a self-taught filmmaker and musician, David Markey brings together alternative music, experimental cinema and contemporary culture in a direct and insightful way. He has been making films and music videos for over 25 years, collaborating with bands such as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Black Flag and the Meat Puppets to name but a few, as well as visual artists such as Raymond Pettibon and Cameron Jamie.
His extensive body of work includes experimental shorts, music videos and feature films, including the music documentary 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1993) - the acclaimed film about the Sonic Youth/Nirvana 1991 European tour, which also features Dinosaur Jr, Babes In Toyland, Gumball and The Ramones.
He is also renowned for the super 8 cult classic Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984), which chronicles the rise to fame of three runaways who form an all-girl rock band and the troubles they encounter with both their sleazy manager and rival girl gang the She-Devils, and the sequel Lovedolls Superstar (1986), which sees the girls return from their untimely demise to re-conquer the charts and conquer the world - featuring music by Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Red Kross, Dead Kennedys and more.
The Desperate Cinema Touring Programme showcases a range of works including shorts, music videos and the yet-to-be released music documentary, (This Is Known As) The Blues Scale (2004), a 40 minute post-script to 1991: The Year Punk Broke that has been cut from outtakes of the original footage and features previously unseen performance and off stage material.
The touring programme will be presented by David Markey in person, with a Q&A session to follow the screening at each venue.
The Tyneside Cinema and Curzon Soho are also presenting additional screenings of other features - see tour schedule for details.
PLEASE CONTACT INDIVIDUAL VENUES FOR SCREENING TIMES AND TICKET INFORMATION.