D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)
Director: Michael W. Dean
This documentary starts out with the filmmaker asking the woman on screen, “What’s DIY mean to you?” and the answer that follows is the typical response you’d hear from a documentary called D.I.Y. or Die: “Answer your own damned questions, live your own damned life” and all the anti-corporatist platitudes we as artists need to hear sometimes.
With interviews from J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, Jim Rose (without his Circus Sideshow), Lydia Lunch to up & comers on the scene, simple questions are responded to with complex, drug addled and poetic answers. Not that great for a Friday night looking for a fantastic plot, but definitely a film I would suggest keeping near the computer, the paintbrushes, the amp or camera, because we all need a little inspiration sometimes, ‘cause the world is all DIY or die, baby.
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