Factory 25 to release "Altamont Now" on DVD

Factory 25 is visually assaulting the second half of 2010, releasing SEVEN new titles on DVD and vinyl between July and October, kicking off with the revolutionary offbeat Altamont Now, available on DVD and digital download from the F25 web store beginning July 27th.

This year will also see releases of Until The Light Takes Us, Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same, Rio Breaks, Sir Henry At Rollinson End, You Wont Miss Me, Wah Do Dem and Make out With Violence.

A comedic slice of Indie Rock Apocalypse, Altamont Now is a biting satire of how the “alternative” youth culture of America lifts its rebellion from the past. It’s the 30th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ disastrous concert at Altamont. Deep inside an abandoned nuclear missile silo in the middle of the California desert, indie rock legend-turned recluse Richard Havoc and his band of alt-rock misfits sequester themselves 15 stories underground as a giant F-U to “The Man.” When a mysteriously square journalist infiltrates the gratingly endless parade of “Alternative Nation” posturing and lame angst-y whining, all Hell breaks loose.

Can the power of rock save Havoc and the world from nuclear devastation?

Borrowing the form of the Maysles’ Gimme Shelter that documented the Rolling Stones’ tragic Altamont concert, Altamont Now presents a unique reversioning of 1960s rock-sploitation films, Black Panther-style revolutionary rhetoric, and cinema verité to portray and eerily emblematic group of youth who have nothing worth rebelling for. Altamont Now is a uniquely humorous and critical meditation on the state of youth rebellion in America today.

Altamont Now
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Label: Factory 25
Director: Joshua von Brown
Length: 80 minutes
Year: 2009
Tech Details: English, Color, 1.78:1 Widescreen, Dolby Digital, NR, NTSC, Region 0
Extras:
- The Movie! with commentary track
- Audio soundtrack of the songs performed in the movie by Enduro with Richard Havoc and Karen Kennedy
- Deleted and extended scenes… including the original movie ending which had been deemed too mind-blowing for human consumption
- Behind the scenes at the actual underground nuclear missile silo where ALTAMONT NOW was shot
- A never-before-seen clip of Richard Havoc recording “(Don’t) Hate the Kids” circa 1998
- Short film "Out Getting Ribs" featuring Daniel Louis Rivas from Altamont Now and legendary model/artist/actor/provocateur Tony Ward