The silliness of the Los Angeles punk rock scene is brought into full light in DUBEAT-E-O, an odd audio-visual attack that has some interesting technique but zero content. duBEAT-e-o (Ray Sharkey) is a filmmaker working on a rockumentary about real-life rock songstress Joan Jett. Under
the crunch of deadlines, he is given 31 hours to complete his film by his wheelchair-bound financier (Len Lesser). duBEAT-e-o then hunts down his editor, Benny (DerfScratch, a member of the band "Fear"), and chains him to the editing bench. Vulgarity runs rampant and nothing insightful comes out
of these characters' editing room chats. If you've got an undying interest in the LA punk...
Released:
1984
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins