DVDs
A collection of short films on bicycle culture.
What is bicycle culture? It’s what you make of it. Anything can happen: Activists educate the policymakers. Bureaucrats create whimsical public art. Strangers help each other move house by bike. Corporations turn their drive-thrus into bike thrus. Joe Biel’s short movies explore all these phenomena and more as he follows the emergence of modern bike culture over the last ten years of riding the streets of US cities and meeting the characters who are making the magic happen.
Between Resistance & Community: The Long Island DIY Punk Community
by Ben Holtzman, Joe Carroll, and Jimmy Choi
$12.95
An original documentary that focuses on a group of kids who have built a community around a love of music and a passion for creating an alternative to dominant consumerist society. By putting on shows in basements, booking and traveling on national tours, and releasing their own records, these kids attempt to distance themselves from the corporate influence that they consider not only unnecessary, but unwelcome. This fascinating look into the workings of a DIY punk community also examines the scene’s shortcomings, such as undercurrents of sexism as well as the problem of self sufficiency, which pressures some to seek out the same corporate avenues to which the scene strives to be an alternative.
Do You Copy?by Gracies Collective
$6
At Copy Maker, Brian has been trying to get his order filled for weeks but their “special” machine keeps ruining his print job. Jason and Peter, despite gross incompetency, attempt to stall him while completing other print jobs, ignoring the weirdness of their clientele. They escape to fantasy worlds and fight mutant aliens on their hunt for the double sided transmutation crystals. Who is the bigger asshole, the boss or the customer?
If It Ain’t Cheap, It Ain’t Punk: Fifteen Years of Plan-it X Records
by Joe Biel
$14.99
Plan-it X Records helped foster a huge cultural revolution—uniting geographically divided DIY punk communities under one umbrella. With a united ethic and common goals, this scene has grown to a critical mass while some bands flirted with mainstream success and others choose to remain firmly rooted in the basement punk scene.
$100 & A T-Shirt: A Documentary About Zines in Portland, OR by Joe Biel
$12.99
Four years in the making, the third version of this mildly exciting talkie/video features newer, cleaner, re-mastered audio, a new history section, and 50 new visual shots & pieces of archive material to break up the talking heads. Includes two brand new bonus short documentaries – “Tennessee State Prison” and “Record Playerz”.
A cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of zines, the resources and community available for zine makers, and the future of zines. Interviews with about 70 zine makers, ex-zine makers, and readers from the northwest.
Cantankerous Titles & Obscure Ephemera, Vol 1
by Joe Biel
$12.99
“Joe Biel’s collection of “talkies” perfectly embodies the D.I.Y. doc mantra of “just get out there and shoot it.” Consisting of five films, ranging from 11 to 40 minutes, Biel injects each film with a political and socially conscious agenda. Two films in particular carry the common thread of looking to alternative forms of transport. Biel’s D.I.Y. doc aesthetic works well throughout the disk and he’s definitely developing a signature in his style, it’ll be interesting to see what he aims his camera at next.” -James King, Broken Pencil