Died Young, Stayed Pretty examines the outsiders in the rock poster scene
Jarboe joins Swans tonight (Fri., July 22) at Terminal West.
Photo credit: Lee Ranaldo
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At the heart of Died Young, Stayed Pretty, Eileen Yaghoobian’s documentary about rock poster artists, is a disregard for pleasing the masses. Like the artists she follows, Yaghoobian’s film couldn’t give two shits about the rules. There is no concise history of rock posters in Died Young, Stayed Pretty. It does not document some sort of rise or fall. No one explains how exactly the posters are made or who exactly the artists are and how exactly they relate to each other. Instead of an encyclopedic document, Yaghoobian has produced a psychological portrait of a distinctly related but fractured scene of contemporary artists.
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Eileen Yaghoobian's documentary screens March 3 at the Plaza.