| Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema , Allison Anders made her debut, alongside co directors and feIIow UCLA film schooI students, Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A Iow-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to compIete, Border Radio features Iegendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen Ioot from a cIub and gone missing, leaving his wife , a no-nonsense rock journaIist, to track him down with the help of his friends . With its sprawling Southern Californian and Mexican landscape, captured in evocative 16mm bIack-and-white, Border Radio is a singuIar, DlY memento of the indie film expIosion in America. |