Altamont Now
Director: Joshua Von Brown
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Duration: 80 minutes
Print source: www.altamontnow.com
It’s 1999 and the countdown has started. It’s the Altamont babies versus the Woodstock babies in this gleefully nihilistic feature length underground movie that celebrates the timeless battle of the Kids against the Man. A gang of media saturated twenty-somethings in a missile silo in the desert are living the revolution, preparing to put out the call to the Kids. An anarchist rebellion led by secret weapon designing rock star Richard Havoc. A true revolutionary leader, he was kicked out of school in second grade and raised by dogs before becoming a music sensation. Havoc’s followers include sneering bombshell Karen who likes to get high and shoot guns and Travis the geeky technician whose vocabulary is a mash-up of all youth movie slang. When the call comes will the kids take-it and what will happen?
Destined to become a bona fide underground cult, Altamont Now Is the only film to ask “Why is daddy acting funny?” and “If you kill all the old people, who is going to do your taxes?” And the only movie to warn us that “The past is too stupid to be repeated”.
The greatest movie about untamed youth revolt since The Riot On Sunset Strip, boasting a fantastic post-punk post-grunge rock and roll soundtrack and pure brash snotty screw you attitude Altamont Now is a hilariously savage denouncement of cooperate rebellion, youth media, and soap operas.
Screens with the short film Shockwaves
Present your ticket stub from from this film to get FREE admission to the Welcome to the No Budget IndieVerse Panel at 3:00pm on Sunday 12th July at TAFE Music Campus.