Scumrock

Jon Moritsugu ("Mod Fuck Explosion", "Fame Whore", "Terminal USA", "Der Elvis"), master of the low-budget fever dream, has created his most freaked-out flick to date. Not only does "Scumrock" shatter the myth of what cool is but it was shot entirely on analog Hi8 video with a $300 consumer camera. "Scumrock" cleaned-up the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals by winning "Best Feature" Award at both.
"Scumrock" follows hipster Miles Morgan (played by Kyp Malone of the very real band "TV on the Radio") who is trying to create the ultimate art film, as well as Moritsugu mainstay Amy Davis as Roxxy the punkoid rocker from hell, commanding her band to regain their once "cult status". Smashed dreams and untimely love abound in Moritsugu's magnum opus. Along for the ride are James Duval (of Donnie Darko) and producer Andrea Sperling ("Pumpkin", "But I'm a Cheerleader", "Prozac Nation", 4 films by Gregg Araki).




"Best Feature" - New York Underground Film Festival

"Best Feature" - Chicago Underground Film Festival


"Best of 2003" - The Village Voice Film Critics Poll



"The story of aging hipsters, Scumrock is a stylishly scruffy (shot on very lo-fi video), heartfelt movie that could, ironically, get its resolutely independent creator more mainstream attention." -E online



"A" -E online (grade)



"as fast and energetic as it is funny" -Los Angeles Times



"a quick-witted, smartly poignant effort from someone who's earned his indie cred"
-LA Weekly



"Moritsugu gleefully puts the screws to indie rockers and undie filmmakers" -TV Guide.com



"Scumrock is a must-see film" - Pittsburgh Post Gazette



"gripping, strangely beautiful, and poignant" - The Village Voice



"a balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll epic" - Film Threat



"Brilliant indie film" - City Pages, Minneapolis



"the rare film in which rock music looks and feels real" - Giant Robot



"Neurotic, vulnerable and nauseatingly earnest" - Paper



"shattering taboos... fearless, anarchistic, defiantly lo-fi" - San Francisco Examiner



"a savage send-up of indie poseurs" - Resonance



"Scumrock tells a poignant story while relishing in the true aesthetic spirit of underground cinema" - Indiewire