Mixing vintage music videos, live clips, and found footage with contemporary interviews, the film portrays what happened when a group of disaffected teenagers from a small, isolated Northwest city embraced the music and fashion of the big-city punk scenes. The interviewees reminisce about their early years as rebels and misfits in a conservative town, and reflect on how their participation in the scene continues to influence their lives as middle-aged adults.
Several of the cast have achieved notoriety since the period depicted in the film, including Paul D'Amour , the original bassist for the band Tool , circus sideshow performer Zamora the Torture King , and the creator of Internet meme Keyboard Cat.
The film is not credited to a single director, but to the core production team of David W. Halsell, Erica K. They conducted over 60 interviews and assembled hours of both new and old footage, in addition to hundreds of original photographs, flyers, and fanzines from the s and s.
The film premiered at the Garland Theater in Spokane on August 6, In addition to regular theatrical runs in Spokane and Seattle, SpokAnarchy! Brian Miller of the Seattle Weekly praised the film as "a well-assembled mosaic of voices", [ 1 ] and Andrew Matson of The Seattle Times wrote that "[t]he crowning achievement of the documentary SpokAnarchy!
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