Rock My Religion is a 1984 no wave experimental art film by Dan Graham. It is also the title of a collection of essays written by Dan himself from 1965 to 1990.The MIT Press
Form and content Created between 1982 and 1984 using television archives, the film is primarily made up of photographic and audiovisual montageExcerpt on ArtforumThe Pop Apocalypse: 'Rock My Religion' - The Washington Post and contains original music by Glenn Branca (Theme for a Drive Through Suburbia) and Sonic Youth (Shaking Hell and Brother James).Nightingale Cinema It begins by concentrating on religious revivals and demonstrates interesting ties between religion and rock music beginning with Shakers ecstatic trance dancing.Punk Rock is My Religion: Straight Edge Punk and 'Religious' Identity - Routledge & CRC PressShaker Museum Mount Lebanon and continuing with the Ghost Dance.
Production The movie was produced by Dan Graham and the Moderna Museet. It was edited by Matt Danowski, Derek Graham, Iam Murray and Tony Oursler. Rough editing was done at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and at Young Filmmakers in New York City. Post-production was done at Electronic Arts Intermix, at Charles Street Video in Toronto and at Number Seventeen Video Facility in New York City.Electronic Arts Intermix
Funding Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden NYSCA CAPS Grant Women's Interart Center
See also
List of American films of 1984 Mudd Club Tier 3 Just Another Asshole No wave cinema Post-punk Video essay
References
Further reading Kodwo Eshun, Dan Graham Rock My Religion, London: Afterall, 2012 The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights since 1980, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 41
External links Rock My Religion on Vimeo Rock My Religion (excerpt) Whitney Museum of American Art