punk aesthetic in film

If punk is idea with varying sounds and ways to present itself but an underlying subversive attitude then I wondered how far the interpretation of visual aesthetics as punk could go. Japanese director Sogo Ishii was involved in the Japanese punk scene before his directing career and it interested me that his films are described as punk films despite having little links to what would I would have ordinarily thought typified punk. So how does Ishii visually express punk? Through his aggressive, anarchic aesthetic. In his film Burst City Ishii sought to create the visual equivalent of punk music. The creative creative philosophies of the punk movement underlie his film making technique For instance the speed and anarchic energy of punk music is utilised in the frantic energy of the film's rapidly cutting montage sequences. The film also doesn't stick too many of the dominant rules of film making and instead re-utilises the tools of film making to create something more expressive. of film making. Sogo Ishii films apocalyptic visions of the future also mirror punk's disdain the status quo thematically. Instead of relying of sophisticated effects these films draw on any tool available to their strong aesthetic.