Overview

This original documentary 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. Features live footage and interviews with Latterman, On the Might of Princes, The Insurgent, Seven Days of Samsara, plus show-goers, scenesters, zinesters, and activists.

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These kids are rebelling against social norms through music, community, and kickball. While we may have some disagreements about what exactly the DIY punk scene is all about, they will all agree that it is about friendship, cheap shows, and never giving into consumerism and 'the Long Island Mall.' I would highly recommend this documentary for anyone curious about the DIY punk scene or for anyone simply desiring an explanation for it. - Caitlin Davis, Cointerpoise Fans of the music will love all of the live performances by a number of local and touring bands throughout the documentary and in the extras as well. The extras on this DVD are jam-packed with great follow up interviews since the documentary was originally made in 2001; one extra in particular talks specifically about women in the punk scene who often have trouble fitting into the male dominated culture and how the girls of the Long Island scene created their own organizations to express themselves. This is a great document of an often maligned youth culture (as the constant run ins with law enforcement shows), which fans of punk music will delight in. - Lipstik Indie This is a thoughtful film and showed a side of punk rock that I am proud to be part of: hard-working, DIY, and willing to wear their hearts on their sleeves. - Razorcake Joe Carroll and Ben Holtzman's Between Resistance and Community: The Long Island Do It Yourself Punk Scene proves that punk's not deadit's just cleaned up its act and moved out past Massapequa. Unlike the glue-sniffing nihilists of Penelope Spheeris's Decline of Western Civilization films, these well-spoken kids with creative haircuts describe their own basement-band scene in terms of 'building community-based movements, ' speaking of 'love and compassion' amid alienating landscapes of strip malls and expressways ('Punk is not a drive-thru, ' reads one of their cut-and-paste flyers). Emo activists in hardcore gear, they collect food for the homeless, analyze their own sexism, and sing without irony about the 'smiling faces/smiling back at me' that fill their literally underground gigs. Shot with an appropriately homemade, affectionate style, Between provides a timely snapshot of contemporary punk's new sincerity. Like its subjects, the documentary rebels against cynical consumer capitalism by embracing a warm Fugazite humanism. - The Village Voice

These kids are rebelling against social norms through music, community, and kickball. While we may have some disagreements about what exactly the DIY punk scene is all about, they will all agree that it is about friendship, cheap shows, and never giving into consumerism and 'the Long Island Mall.' I would highly recommend this documentary for anyone curious about the DIY punk scene or for anyone simply desiring an explanation for it. - Caitlin Davis, Cointerpoise Fans of the music will love all of the live performances by a number of local and touring bands throughout the documentary and in the extras as well. The extras on this DVD are jam-packed with great follow up interviews since the documentary was originally made in 2001; one extra in particular talks specifically about women in the punk scene who often have trouble fitting into the male dominated culture and how the girls of the Long Island scene created their own organizations to express themselves. This is a great document of an often maligned youth culture (as the constant run ins with law enforcement shows), which fans of punk music will delight in. - Lipstik Indie This is a thoughtful film and showed a side of punk rock that I am proud to be part of: hard-working, DIY, and willing to wear their hearts on their sleeves. - Razorcake Joe Carroll and Ben Holtzman's Between Resistance and Community: The Long Island Do It Yourself Punk Scene proves that punk's not deadit's just cleaned up its act and moved out past Massapequa. Unlike the glue-sniffing nihilists of Penelope Spheeris's Decline of Western Civilization films, these well-spoken kids with creative haircuts describe their own basement-band scene in terms of 'building community-based movements, ' speaking of 'love and compassion' amid alienating landscapes of strip malls and expressways ('Punk is not a drive-thru, ' reads one of their cut-and-paste flyers). Emo activists in hardcore gear, they collect food for the homeless, analyze their own sexism, and sing without irony about the 'smiling faces/smiling back at me' that fill their literally underground gigs. Shot with an appropriately homemade, affectionate style, Between provides a timely snapshot of contemporary punk's new sincerity. Like its subjects, the documentary rebels against cynical consumer capitalism by embracing a warm Fugazite humanism. - The Village Voice

These kids are rebelling against social norms through music, community, and kickball. While we may have some disagreements about what exactly the DIY punk scene is all about, they will all agree that it is about friendship, cheap shows, and never giving into consumerism and 'the Long Island Mall.' I would highly recommend this documentary for anyone curious about the DIY punk scene or for anyone simply desiring an explanation for it. - Caitlin Davis, <i>Cointerpoise</i> Fans of the music will love all of the live performances by a number of local and touring bands throughout the documentary and in the extras as well. The extras on this DVD are jam-packed with great follow up interviews since the documentary was originally made in 2001; one extra in particular talks specifically about women in the punk scene who often have trouble fitting into the male dominated culture and how the girls of the Long Island scene created their own organizations to express themselves. This is a great document of an often maligned youth culture (as the constant run ins with law enforcement shows), which fans of punk music will delight in. - <i>Lipstik Indie</i> This is a thoughtful film and showed a side of punk rock that I am proud to be part of: hard-working, DIY, and willing to wear their hearts on their sleeves. - <i>Razorcake</i> Joe Carroll and Ben Holtzman's <i>Between Resistance and Community: The Long Island Do It Yourself Punk Scene</i> proves that punk's not deadit's just cleaned up its act and moved out past Massapequa. Unlike the glue-sniffing nihilists of Penelope Spheeris's <i>Decline of Western Civilization</i> films, these well-spoken kids with creative haircuts describe their own basement-band scene in terms of 'building community-based movements, ' speaking of 'love and compassion' amid alienating landscapes of strip malls and expressways ('Punk is not a drive-thru, ' reads one of their cut-and-paste flyers). Emo activists in hardcore gear, they collect food for the homeless, analyze their own sexism, and sing without irony about the 'smiling faces/smiling back at me' that fill their literally underground gigs. Shot with an appropriately homemade, affectionate style, <i>Between</i> provides a timely snapshot of contemporary punk's new sincerity. Like its subjects, the documentary rebels against cynical consumer capitalism by embracing a warm Fugazite humanism. - <i>The Village Voice</i>

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Ben Holtzman is a former publisher at Routledge and is the author of Sick: A Compilation Zine on Physical Illness. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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