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Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher; June 17, 1958) is an American musician, spoken word artist and leading figure of the Green Party of the United States. Biafra first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray. Although now focused primarily on spoken word art, he has continued as a musician in numerous collaborations.
Politically, Biafra is a member of the Green Party of the United States and actively supports various political causes. He ran for the party's Presidential nomination in 2000, finishing second to Ralph Nader. He is an anarchist who advocates direct action and pranksterism in the name of political causes. Biafra is known to use absurdist media tactics, in the leftist tradition of the Yippies, to highlight issues of civil rights and social justice.
Most Popular Jello Biafra Trailers
Total trailers found: 83
31 May 2017
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of the inspiring 924 Gilman Street collective.
15 September 2015
The 1970s punk rock movement: New York had the Ramones, London had the Sex Pistols, Australia had the Saints.
19 April 2001
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground punk scenes in the 70's & 80's, and the punk resurgence in the 90's.
01 January 2007
Starting with its inception in 1986, the all-ages nonprofit punk venue at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, Calif.
07 December 2021
A documentary about the raging dumpster fire which was 2020.
26 March 2012
A documentary about The Troggs (performers of Wild Thing) and other Rock bands.
01 January 1986
The Lovedolls return from their untimely demise in this 1986 sequel to "Desperate Teenage Lovedolls". Patch Kelley (Janet Housden) becomes Patch Christ, the leader of an acid-damaged religious cult who rescues has been Kitty Karryall from a boozy, wasted life. Rocking by Redd Kross, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Dead Kennedys, & more!
11 December 2002
The Bikini Bandits are sent to hell after their car goes off a cliff.
05 September 1991
A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans.
07 April 2008
Undeniably one of the most important and influential gay music acts in the last twenty years, Pansy Division pioneered the "queercore" genre long before other gay musicians had the confidence to come out of the closet, and without major record label support or mainstream radio airplay.
01 January 1994
GWAR, the bloodthirsty alien antiheroes, conduct a worldwide telethon to feed souls to the World Maggot, which will transport the members of GWAR off our miserable planet once it grows.
04 July 2005
From London's 1970 mod scene to Sonic Youth, punk music has always been about attitude and anarchy. This comprehensive rockumentary traces the roots of punk, from The Velvet Underground and the New York Dolls to the Sex Pistols and The Clash.
27 July 2007
On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios, shopping malls and stadiums where punk rock music and culture continue to thrive.
21 April 2018
When he started as a comedy writer for the Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young had few interests and not many friends outside of his day job.
07 June 2019
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco.
06 March 2022
A young waitress at a fast food diner has a bad feeling about things going on behind the chrome and neon facade of the diner.
12 March 2004
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downtown Stop 'n Go convenience store.
29 September 2004
Documentary covering The Ramones' long and eventful history, with footage from their final ever show at the Palace in Hollywood, 6th August 1996.
16 August 1994
Documentary that gives a voice to the percentage of youth that were outcasts/non-conformists in the 90's.
21 July 2011
Provides an insider's view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band Ministry - during their world tour - as front man Al Jourgensen slips into drug addiction.
15 March 2015
From Lemmy filmmaker Wes Orshoski comes the story of the long-ignored pioneers of punk: The Damned, the first U.
25 April 2010
We Were Feared chronicles the rise and fall of the Cuckoo's Nest punk rock club. Hailed as the birthplace of slam-dancing, the Nest famously shared a parking lot with a cowboy bar and the mayhem that would ensue when both clubs emptied was immortalized in the Vandals' songs “The Legend of Pat Brown” and “Urban Struggle.
04 July 2012
Many objected to leather-jacket, spike-hair kids with tattoos. But, that did not dissuade a generation.
01 January 1983
A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misconceptions and trace the historical development of the movement.
01 January 2002
OWNED presents the 50 year history of the law-spurning tech tradition of hacking. This vibrant movement gained momentum in the 1960s with Captain Crunch and phone phreaking and now includes annual DefCon hacker conventions in Las Vegas (an amusing highlight of these is the fun game "Spot the Fed").
20 June 2009
American Artifact chronicles the rise of American rock poster art since it's birth in the'60s. Award-winning director, Merle Becker crosses the country interviewing the rock poster artists from the different eras to discover that America is currently in the midst of a 21st century "rock poster art movement", where thousands of artists around the country are doing silk screened rock poster art inspired by their local scene, the music of our time, and the spirit of our era.
15 April 2011
25 years in the world of underground rock, as seen through the eyes of cult band, Alice Donut.
01 January 1982
Dead Kennedys filmed live at Arena Wien in Vienna, Austria, 1982.
01 June 2017
"The Music of Magma" is a feature film that explores one of the most visionary and innovative music of the last 50 years, Magma.
21 October 1988
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dimwitted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company.
25 October 2005
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Eyeballs features a brief history of the Dead Kennedys' early years up to their first UK tour, never before seen live performances, interviews with Klaus Fluoride and East Bay Ray, comments by music journalists, and insights from the key people involved with the recording of the DK's first album.
26 September 2024
While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels.
01 January 1999
Milton Smythe is unable to accept the death of his beloved wife. Although she no longer moves or speaks, he still hears her, and he is determined to stay together.
11 May 2013
Some people seem to have come into the world to confuse, annoy, swim against the current, like the guys from Gangrena Gasosa, the first and only Sarava Metal band of the universe.
01 January 1997
The story, reminiscent in tone of a Twilight Zone allegory, involves a strange woman with an odd accent who loses her husband in a graphically depicted scene of auto-erotic asphyxiation.
16 November 2018
A documentary about Jim "Dandy" Mangrum and his band Black Oak Arkansas.
16 August 2018
The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.
11 May 1990
A young man inadvertently witnesses a killing by his uncle, the corrupt mayor of Terminal City, who retaliates by dubbing him the "Rock and Roll Terrorist" and builds an anti-crime campaign around him.
10 October 2022
In the 1960’s, surf music was born in southern California and quickly became a global cultural phenomenon.
04 July 2024
Steppenwolf is one of the most legendary and at the same time most enigmatic bands in the history of rock music.
05 September 1980
The sequel to This is America, aka Jabberwalk. This film goes inside the real America circa 1980 - a world of punks, orgies and worm-eating hicks! Romano Vanderbes back on the film making side and Norman Rose back on narrating duty for the second of the This Is America trilogy.
12 September 2013
Diva Jones is a porn star known for her love story porn movies but has no idea what the word love means.
07 November 1981
Urgh! A Music War is a British film released in 1982 featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk acts, filmed in 1980.
01 January 2007
Texas filmmaker Kevin Booth delves into a world of deceit and corruption controlled by a drug dealing government who's only allegiance is to its corporate masters.
27 April 2014
Through an oral history format of in-depth interviews and archival footage, RIOT ON THE DANCE FLOOR bring to life the gritty story of City Gardens, one of New Jersey’s most infamous clubs and its larger than life promoter, Randy Now.
19 November 1979
It was clear from the start that the Dead Kennedys were not your average band. Jello Biafra's lyrical themes were overtly political, attacking President Ronald Reagan, the Klan, big business, and such with a glorious sense of raging sarcasm that owes some credence to such wild luminaries as Lenny Bruce.
25 February 2005
A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise after the death of singer D.
13 October 2020
Welcome to a never-before-seen tour of the creations by resistance artists around the world. From the streets of Moscow to the shores of Los Angeles and featuring interviews with Tom Morello, Dave Navarro, Moby, Shepard Fairey, and more, this powerful film brings a message of hope and change through radical resistance and righteous social uprising.
05 November 2010
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
30 March 2008
A look at the life and work of controversial rock musician and cult hero, Wesley Willis.
08 May 2023
When does art become obscenity? Cover Your Ears takes a close look at this question through the lensy
05 January 2011
From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s.
01 March 1986
A documentary about the band X. Includes live and studio performances and interviews with the band members.
01 January 1999
Chicago's most profane hand puppet covers the goings-on at the second Expo of the Extreme, held in May, 1999.
01 January 1999
A short look at Jello Biafra's run for Mayor of San Francisco.
22 March 1998
A high schooler from suburbia gets in touch with her sexuality while working at a dingy movie theater in the city.
09 November 2012
A documentary about the Italian provocateur industrial band Disciplinatha.
14 December 2013
A documentary about the career of German folk singer Heino, from his beginnings in the late 60s to his current success with an album of rock and pop covers.
29 October 2017
Based on a true story, and set in late 1990 against the backdrop of the first gulf war, An American in Texas is the story of lifelong friends as they reach the cusp of adulthood and must decide between the hollow values of corporate careerism; or the narrow way of individualism and freedom.
03 September 1990
A concert of the industrial band Ministry, filmed during the famous "The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" tour with guest artists like Ogre (of Skinny Puppy) and Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys).
