A Paris comme à Londres en 1978… Notre jeunesse, insolente, insouciante et libre. Un témoignage vidéo-ethnographique de Phil Munnoch alias Captain Zip.

“Death Is Their Destiny” (1978, 8mm) – part 1 & 2

“Death Is Their Destiny” is the first of eight punk films I shot on the King’s Road between 1978 and 1981. Originally shot silent, the film was striped and had music and a voice-over added in the mid-1980s. Some of my punk footage is included in the Julien Temple film “Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten.”

“Don’t Dream It – See It” (1978)

The complete version of Zip’s fourth punk film, the source of many of the clips used in the above programmes. With punks on the King’s Road and Portobello Road, Rat posing in a shop window, the Dispozest in Downing Street, and dramatic irony from punkettes at Zip’s bedsit. PM052. 1978. Music added in 2012: “One Drop” by PIL, “Yin & Yan” by Jah Wobble and Keith Levene and “Poptones” by PIL.

Captain Zip’s punk clips on “Punk Britannia” (BBC4, 2012)

Two clips from a recent BBC4 documentary, again featuring 8mm material by Captain Zip (tx: BBC4. 8.6.2012). Material taken from DVDs provided by Stan Wootton.

“The Way We Were”: Punk Home Movies

“a great liberation of human spirit”

I present a selection of extracts from my punk films for this ITV programme about home movies. Also on the show is Ann “Wobble”, one of my punk friends who hadn’t seen these films in twenty-five years. The programme was directed by Alison Starsmore and narrated by Bernard Cribbins and copyright Anglia Television 2006.