Profile By Liz Nord
Everything about the new documentary "Meditate & Destroy", captures the D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) spirit of the punk music that runs rampant through its soundtrack. The film's director, first-time-filmmaker Sarah Fisher, shot and edited most of the flick herself, and it is currently touring with the best-named film festival ever: From Here to Awesome. FHTA is a fest put together by indie filmmakers like Arin Crumley of Four-Eyed Monsters fame, as an experiment in D.I.Y. distribution—a way to get movies to audiences without having to go through the major studios and theatre chains that often suck up all of a film's profits.
"Meditate & Destroy" is a raw depiction of the story of Noah Levine, a charismatic, heavily tattooed, motorcycle-riding, punk rocker who hit rock bottom in a rough adolescence, punctuated with heroine abuse and several visits to juvenile hall. Read more...
I'll be honest, when I think of Michel Gondry "real life" isn't the first thing that comes to mind, not with fantastical and sometimes surreal movies like "The Science of Sleep" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" to his credit. But, three years after "Dave Chappelle's Block Party," the Puckish director is returning to documentary, he revealed to MTV News.