A+DFF: The New Museum
$11.50
Dir. Jon Moritsugu
2026, USA, 93 min
Rated 18A (Unrated)
Amy Davis and James Duval play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension.
Ostensibly a riff on the absurdity of art, warfare of people, material control/secular terror, addictions of every genre, and self-actualization thru internal Jungian conflict, the movie – at its most base level – is a full-on and mega-entertaining cinematic odyssey tinged with ludicrous sci-fi, raw poignancy, and utter brutalism. A Punk Rock Blade Runner for Artists!
Featuring a special pre-recorded introduction from director Jon Moritsugu!
“Overflowing with eye-popping production design, eardrum-destroying rock ’n’ roll, gross-outs aplenty and deadpan one-liners you’ll be quoting for weeks.” – Wall Street Journal
“One of the 25 Greatest Punk Rock Movies of All Times” (My Degeneration, Moritsugu’s first feature that Roger Ebert walked out of after seven minutes at its Sundance premiere) – Rolling Stone
