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Rock My Religion
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Wikipedia article
'Rock My Religion' is a (1984) no wave experimental art film by Dan Graham. It's also the title of a collection of essays written by Dan himself from 1965 to 1990.[https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/rock-my-religion The MIT Press]
Form and content
Created between 1982 and 1984 using television archives, the film is primarily made up of photographic and audiovisual montage[https://artforum.com/video/mode=large&id=22069 Excerpt on Artforum][https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2007/11/29/the_pop_apocalypse_rock_my_religion/ The Pop Apocalypse: 'Rock My Religion' - The Washington Post] and contains original music by Glenn Branca ('Theme for a Drive Through Suburbia') and Sonic Youth ('Shaking Hell' and 'Brother James').[http://nightingalecinema.org/dan-grahams-rock-my-religion-minor-threat/ Nightingale Cinema] It begins by concentrating on religious revivals and demonstrates interesting ties between religion and rock music beginning with Shakers ecstatic trance dancing.[https://www.routledge.com/Punk-Rock-is-My-Religion-Straight-Edge-Punk-and-Religious-Identity/Stewart/p/book/9780367884437 Punk Rock is My Religion: Straight Edge Punk and 'Religious' Identity - Routledge & CRC Press][https://shakerml.org/collection/rock-religion-2014/ Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon] and continuing with the Ghost Dance.
Production
The movie was produced by Dan Graham and the Moderna Museet. It was edited by Matt Danowski, Derek Graham, Iam Murray and Tony Oursler. Rough editing was done at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and at Young Filmmakers in New York City. Post-production was done at Electronic Arts Intermix, at Charles Street Video in Toronto and at Number Seventeen Video Facility in New York City.[https://www.eai.org/titles/rock-my-religion Electronic Arts Intermix]
Funding
*Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
*NYSCA
*CAPS Grant
*Women's Interart Center
See also
*List of American films of 1984
*Mudd Club
*Tier 3
*Just Another Asshole
*No wave cinema
*Post-punk
*Video essay
References
Further reading
* Kodwo Eshun, 'Dan Graham Rock My Religion,' London: Afterall, 2012
* The Museum of Modern Art, '[http://www.moma.org/collection/works/107472 MoMA Highlights since 1980]', New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 41
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