Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
Pretty badass for a film that cost $250
David Markey
Filmography
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Bug
Through an online contest, six fans are selected to film Dinosaur Jr. performing "Bug" in its entirety at the 9:30 Club in Washington DC, June 2011. Experience the fans' joy as they witness a classic performance and meet their heroes face to face in an exclusive interview with the band. Under the...Watch Movie
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My Career as a Jerk
From the beginning, Los Angeles punk band the Circle Jerks were rooted in controversy. Formed by ex members of Black Flag and Red Cross (now Redd Kross) in late 1979, the band came to encapsulate the image, sound and energy of California Hardcore Punk. Filmmaker David Markey...Watch Movie
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Astro Turf
Punk musician and DIY filmmaker David Markey flashes back to the sixties with a frenetic snippet of a dream in which a hippie (Kevin Maxwell) watches a crowd of people chase and try to grab a tapestry purse from a hippie chick (Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon). The payoff? Another sixties invention:...Watch Movie
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Lovedolls Superstar
The Lovedolls return from their untimely demise in this 1986 sequel to DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS. Patch Kelley becomes Patch Christ, the leader of an acid-damaged religious cult who rescues has been Kitty Karryall from a boozy, wasted life. Once reunited, they recruit Sunset...Watch Movie
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Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
DESPERATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS chronicles the rise and fall of Bunny, Kitty, and Patch (Hilary Rubens, Jennifer Schwartz, and Janet Housden), three teenage runaways who form an all-girl rock group, The Lovedolls. Their rise to fame from a nowhere, drug-filled street life, is...Watch Movie
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Summer Has Been Over for a Long Time
Punk filmmaker David Markey gives visual voice to the end of the "Endless Summer" Southern California beach scene of the sixties and the rise of the "Dogtown and Z-Boys" asphalt and concrete scene of the seventies and eighties. A young man watches the bikinis and boogie...Watch Movie
Genres
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Avant-garde / Surrealistic
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Comedy / Black Comedy
- Comedy / Parody
- Cult / Camp
- Documentary / Art / Performing Arts / Music
- Documentary / History
- Drama / Religious
- Fantasy / Dream
- Independent / Narrative
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Music
- Music / Performance
- Music / Rockumentary
- Music / Rockumentary / Popular Music
- Short / Non-Narrative
Recent Reviews
Summer Has Been Over for a Long Time
Just a fucking homemade music video
Summer Has Been Over for a Long Time
Poetic & dramatic in a way I ain't never seen a Markey before - with a whoopin good dash of youthful joie de vivre! Killer!
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
Every teenager should see it, no matter what their age.
Astro Turf
short and sweet but couldn't figure out the point.