DIED YOUNG STAYED PRETTY
2008/ 94 Minutes/ Colour / Canada
Year: 2009 / Running Time: 73 mins
A Film by Eileen Yaghoobian
Official Website
Exhibition format: Digibeta/ BetaSP/ DVCAM
2008/ 94 Minutes/ Colour / Canada
Year: 2009 / Running Time: 73 mins
A Film by Eileen Yaghoobian
Official Website
Exhibition format: Digibeta/ BetaSP/ DVCAM
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Calgary Underground Film Festival!
April 14 @ 7:00 PM, The Plaza Theatre
2009 SXSW Film Festival Choice - pronetworks.org
"Died Young, Stayed Pretty is...a captivating artifact of an era." The Village Voice's resident cartoonist Ward Sutton reviews poster art documentary DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY, A review done, of course, in posters. - Village Voice
SHORT SYNOPSIS: LONG SYNOPSIS
DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY peels back the paper curtain and looks behind the scenes of the underground poster movement. These graphic banditos roam the streets, plastering their work to every available surface. Under the guise of advertising rock shows, these unheralded masters of the silkscreen and xerox machine carry on public discourses on the merits and pitfalls of fried cheese and gritty porn.
Upcoming Screenings:
Previous Screenings:
The Royal, Toronto - Nov. 14 - 20, 2008
Cinematheque Winnipeg - Dec. 4, 2008
Vancity, Vancouver - Dec. 10 & 11, 2008
Metro Cinema, Edmonton - Jan. 9 - 12, 2008
London Creative Network & Carve Design, London - Jan. 22, 2008
SXSW Film Festival: Sat. March 14th - Alamo Lamar 3 @ 12:00 PM
Wed. March 18th - Austin Convention Ctr @ 2:00 PM
Calgary Underground Film Festival!, April 14 @ 7:00 PM, The Plaza Theatre
SXSW Festival Screening
Died Young Stayed Pretty Selected to Screen at SXSW Film Festival
U.S. Premiere Of Eileen Yaghoobian’s Feature Documentary Captures The Creative Comeback of Rock Posters
Vancouver, Canada (February 2009)
In 2001, the little-known rock poster industry experienced a creative comeback spurred on by the launch of Gigposters.com, a web portal that aims to catalogue rock posters across the globe. Picking up where punk left off, Died Young Stayed Pretty reveals a new breed of counter-culturists; artists that set out to destroy the mainstream through their controversial and intensely visceral design work.
View the film’s U.S. premiere on Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 12:00pm at the Alamo Lamar 3 or on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 at 2:00pm at the Austin Convention Center.
Produced by Norotomo Productions, Yaghoobian travels across the United States and Canada to offer a look into to the world of some of the giants of this modern subculture including Art Chantry, Brian Chippendale, the Ames Brothers, Print Mafia and Rob Jones, who have worked on posters for groups like Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Radiohead, White Stripes, The Melvins, Ween, Marylin Manson, Sonic Youth, Pearl Jam, Queens of Stone Age, Bob Dylan, Marianne Faithfull, The Shins, and the list goes on.
“I’m thrilled to be able to give voice to this close-knit group of DIY artists that are giants within their own world but remain unknown to the mainstream,” said Eileen Yaghoobian. “Stealing from the golden era of Americana, they pervert classic pop culture references and slap it in the face of polite society while safely treading under the radar- picking up pieces of America’s disposable culture and turning them into beautiful obscenities.”
Under the guise of advertising for rocks 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. Yaghoobian sneaks her camera into the lives of these self-proclaimed professional radicals to discover where the real punk power lies, if any remains.
For more information, please visit www.diedyoungstayedpretty.com.
For more information regarding Died Young Stayed Pretty, to set up a interview with Eileen Yaghoobian or to request a screener, please contact Sarah Cirkiel (scirkiel@pitchcontrolpr.com) or Jessica Klynsma (jklynsma@pitchcontrolpr.com), Pitch Control Public Relations,
212.475.4919.
