Eric Mitchell's debut film, shot in Super 8, stars Mitchell, Anya Phillips, Patti Astor, and Duncan Smith among a crowd of hip "poseurs," talking sex, manners, and politics.
Production
Super 8 grain gives authentic 1978 dirt.
Costume
The clothes are accidentally the main character.
Director
Eric Mitchell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anya Phillips was a legendary CBGB scene figure who designed clothes for Debbie Harry and died tragically young in 1982.
Eric Mitchell made this for roughly $3,000, launching a wave of No Wave cinema that rejected Hollywood polish for ramshackle authenticity.
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