Directed by Gregorio Rocha • 1988 • Mexico
Brawls with rockers, hair-spiking sessions, scavenging denim at the junkyard, joyrides, and mosh pits—it’s all in a day for the Mierdas Punk (Punk Shits), a youth gang in Ciudad Neza, Mexico City’s outer slum. Shot on gauzily grimy 16 mm, this short film by Gregorio Rocha (THE LOST REELS OF PANCHO VILLA) tracks the Mierdas across a single Saturday on the eave of Easter, leading up to a raucous punk show and a euphoric flight from the cops. Rocha and his partner, video artist Sarah Minter, invited the teens to collaborate on the script and deliver uninhibited performances as themselves, resulting in an exuberant expression of their flamboyant style and giddily nihilistic attitude.
Up Next in Mexico City Punk
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Nobody Is Innocent
Directed by Sarah Minter • 1986 • Mexico
Sarah Minter’s howl of punk angst follows teenage Kara as he boards a train without a ticket or destination, leaving behind the slums of Ciudad Neza where he once raised hell with his friends. Cutting back and forth between Kara’s anarchic escapades as a ...
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Alma Punk
Directed by Sarah Minter • 1991 • Mexico
Starring Ciro Basilio, Ana Hernandez, Marco PavonAlma (Ana Hernández) spends her days in screen printing, selling records at swap meets, and rehearsing plays and making fanzines with her friends. But Mexico City’s vibrant counterculture scene won’t keep...
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Nobody Is Innocent: Twenty Years Later
Directed by Sarah Minter • 2010 • Mexico
Twenty years after filming NOBODY IS INNOCENT, her indelible portrait of the Mierdas Punk youth gang, Sarah Minter returned to Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl to make this documentary profiling the surviving actors from that film. Each of the Mierdas has taken his ...
