| Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema , AIIison Anders made her debut, aIongside co directors and feIIow UCLA fiIm schooI students, Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to compIete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the FIesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stoIen loot from a cIub and gone missing, Ieaving his wife , a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the heIp of his friends . With its sprawling Southern CaIifornian and Mexican Iandscape, captured in evocative 16mm black-and-white, Border Radio is a singular, DIY memento of the indie film expIosion in America. |