Picking up where punk left off, this unique doc reveals a new breed of counter-culturists; artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial and intensely visceral design work. Under the guise of advertising for rock shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen and Xerox machine carry on public discourses that range from hot button political issues to lewd inside jokes. Director Eileen Yaghoobian sneaks her camera into the lives of these self-proclaimed professional radicals to discover where the real punk power lies, if any remains. This feature film is the first of its kind to take a candid look at the renaissance of North America's underground indie-rock poster movement. "Raw—an outlaw movie about outlaw artists." (Peter Rainer, NPR)
"Died Young, Stayed Pretty is…a captivating artifact of an era." The Village Voice's resident cartoonist Ward Sutton reviews the documentary with, of course, a series of posters: www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/view/27995011/
more at diedyoungstayedpretty.com and Gigposters.com. Video projection.
2009, color, 1 hour 35 minutes, Canada