Portraits from the Fringes takes a group of narrators, (Geoff Cordner, Lydia Lunch, authors Iris Berry & Zora Von Burden, Thelonious Monster singer Bob Forrest and several yet-to-be-determined others) telling stories about their lives. The stories are interwoven forming a loose overall narrative that follows these characters through the punk rock days and the debauchery of the 80s that followed as they crash and/or meander through the fringes of Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Texas, and elsewhere on a sometimes vague and often drug, alcohol, sex, adrenaline & desperation fueled search for identity. There are side trips through the gutter punk days, living in fleabag hotels on the voucher system, peepshows, punk shows, strip clubs, tattoo parlors, back alleys, the Oki Dog stand on Santa Monica Blvd, and just about anywhere and everywhere else someone had faint hopes a good time could be found or funded.

Festival Screenings:

Austin Film Festival: Austin, Tx - Oct. 19 - 26
Bend Film Festival: Bend, Oregon - Oct 12 - 16
Sidewalk Film Festival | Super Shorts Film Festival | SF Indie Docfest | Lucid Underground Media Arts/Kansas City Film Festival

"Celebrated Photographer Geoff Cordner has created a testament to a slice of life that is both brutal and beautiful. Through a series of short films, sexy, world-weary punk voices narrate autobiographical stories of growing up as an outsider in the 1960s & 80s, hotel hopping, and surviving on the streets of Los Angeles. Using a moving collage of black and white photography, Hotel Hopscotch lays down the laws and personalities of desperate street cultures. The junky hotels, the HIV hotels, and the mentally ill hotels are compared and contrasted with a lovingly naked eye. Survival stories of punk street kids in love are told. Tribal heroes in mohawks living off cigarettes and beer protect their own and their fleeting urban families. With self effacing honesty and raw humor, moments in youth are remembered and captured as many in the tribes die young or disappear. This is a meditation on a specific slice of punk life captured with love and honesty." -- Linda Santiman

"The constitution of photographer Geoff Cordner is part cut-throat visionary, part punk rock prankster. His subversive exploits are an assault on the senses." -- Clint Catalyst, author of Cottonmouth Kisses

Produced & directed by Geoff Cordner. Written by Zora Von Burden. Narrated by Adrienne Ironside. Music performed by The Caseworker. Music written by Tom Waits.
	Portraits from the Fringes takes a group of narrators, (Geoff Cordner, Lydia Lunch, authors Iris Berry & Zora Von Burden, Thelonious Monster singer Bob Forrest and several yet-to-be-determined others) telling stories about their lives. The stories are interwoven forming a loose overall narrative that follows these characters through the punk rock days and the debauchery of the 80s that followed as they crash and/or meander through the fringes of Hollywood, New York, San Francisco, Texas, and elsewhere on a sometimes vague and often drug, alcohol, sex, adrenaline & desperation fueled search for identity. There are side trips through the gutter punk days, living in fleabag hotels on the voucher system, peepshows, punk shows, strip clubs, tattoo parlors, back alleys, the Oki Dog stand on Santa Monica Blvd, and just about anywhere and everywhere else someone had faint hopes a good time could be found or funded. Festival Screenings: Austin Film Festival: Austin, Tx - Oct. 19 - 26 Bend Film Festival: Bend, Oregon - Oct 12 - 16 Sidewalk Film Festival \| Super Shorts Film Festival \| SF Indie Docfest \| Lucid Underground Media Arts/Kansas City Film Festival "Celebrated Photographer Geoff Cordner has created a testament to a slice of life that is both brutal and beautiful. Through a series of short films, sexy, world-weary punk voices narrate autobiographical stories of growing up as an outsider in the 1960s & 80s, hotel hopping, and surviving on the streets of Los Angeles. Using a moving collage of black and white photography, Hotel Hopscotch lays down the laws and personalities of desperate street cultures. The junky hotels, the HIV hotels, and the mentally ill hotels are compared and contrasted with a lovingly naked eye. Survival stories of punk street kids in love are told. Tribal heroes in mohawks living off cigarettes and beer protect their own and their fleeting urban families. With self effacing honesty and raw humor, moments in youth are remembered and captured as many in the tribes die young or disappear. This is a meditation on a specific slice of punk life captured with love and honesty." -- Linda Santiman "The constitution of photographer Geoff Cordner is part cut-throat visionary, part punk rock prankster. His subversive exploits are an assault on the senses." -- Clint Catalyst, author of Cottonmouth Kisses