JUBILEE 1978
U.K. film. Jubilee stands as a cinematic artifact from Britain's original 70s punk explosion. Framed by a surreal prologue in which Queen Elizabeth and her occult adviser John Dee are transported forward in time, the film plunges into a bleak, anarchic vision of London where gangs roam bombed-out streets and pop culture has replaced government. Shot largely on location in the decaying docklands districts of Southwark, Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Deptford and around Butler's Wharf in Shad Thames, the film captures a raw portrait of late 1970s urban Britain, abandoned industrial sites, rubble-strewn streets, and public spaces turned into stages for rebellion.

The film features Adam Ant (appearing as "Kid") with music associated with Adam and the Ants, along with appearances or musical contributions connected to Jayne County, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Chelsea, the Slits, Suzi Pinns and others, with an original score and title music by Brian Eno. Musical sequences erupt throughout the film: Jayne County performs on stage, Adam Ant appears within the gang culture at the center of the story, and the music industry itself is satirized through the manipulative impresario Borgia Ginz. Locations become performance spaces, Buckingham Palace is imagined as a recording studio, while Westminster Cathedral is transformed into a decadent nightclub venue.

Between these performances, the screen displays chaotic street imagery and confrontational scenes that feel almost documentary in their immediacy: punk gangs smashing cars, fights breaking out at parties, dancers gyrating in underground club scenes, bodies dragged through derelict dockland streets, and a notorious party sequence filmed at the Catacombs Club off Fulham Road. The result is a jagged time capsule of London at the moment punk culture exploded.

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DEATH IS THEIR DESTINY 1978
Shot on Super-8 by London punk observer "Captain Zip," The film is a raw slice of life from the King's Road at the height of the first punk explosion. Filming around Chelsea's Beaufort Market and the boutiques that defined the scene, we see punks posing, taunting passers-by, and turning the sidewalk into their own stage. The result is unfiltered street footage of the look, attitude, and swagger that made the King's Road ground zero for London punk.

Among the faces caught by Captain Zip's roaming camera are Ari Up of the Slits and fashion provocateur Vivienne Westwood, along with a rotating cast of scene regulars who drift in and out of frame showing off bondage gear, spiked hair, and full punk attitude.

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