Surf Punks

Excellent documentary about the very early LA hardcore punk scene that almost seems accidental Upon visiting LA in the summer of 81 the film maker notices that strangely enough Punk doesnt seem to be dead in LA but on the contrary there seems to be a massive teenage movement going on He decides to make a short documentary about it As he says not without irony Since everything happens a few years earlier in the US I can show the parents back home whats in store for them He was ofcourse witness to the baby steps of the hardcore scene This is the only documentary of the era that is not sensationalizing or mythologizing It doesnt talk to any of the scene stars but rather follows a few disenfranchised suburban kids and runaways in Venice beach I think A rare look into a self destructive and nihilistic scene where the main motives seem to be restlessness and soul crushing boredom Perhaps one of the very few documentaries that give this era a human face