ICONOCLAST

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Produced and Directed by Larry Wessel

ICONOCLAST is The Winner of 2 Melbourne Underground Film Festival Awards: BEST DOCUMENTARY and LARRY WESSEL for BEST DIRECTOR!

SYNOPSIS:

His career has spanned more than three decades, during which time he has remained at the epicenter of underground culture and controversy.
Rice first came to prominence in the 70's as one of the founders of the genre known as Industrial Music and soon gained a reputation for live shows that were deemed the most abrasive, minimalist and loudest concerts ever staged (his shows regularly clocked in at 130 decibels, whereas a jet plane taking off was a mere 113 decibels). As early as 1980, he was already hailed as The Godfather of Noise Music.

Since then, Rice has extended his creative pursuits to numerous fields, even lecturing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, despite being a high-school dropout.
'My life', says Rice, 'is a testament to the idea that you can achieve whatever the hell you want if you possess a modicum of creativity and a certain amount of naivete concerning what is and isn't possible in this world. I've had one man shows of my paintings in New York, but I'm not a painter. I've authored several books, but I'm not a writer. I've made a living as a recording artist for the last 30 years, but I can't read a note of music or play an instrument. I've somehow managed to make a career out of doing a great number of things I'm in no way qualified to do.'

Larry Wessel's documentary, ICONOCLAST is a 4 hour long tour de force, 6 years in the making; an in depth expose of Boyd Rice's life career and personal obsessions.

No mere documentary, ICONOCLAST is more of a roller coaster ride through the fevered mindscape of one of the most controversial and unique artists of the modern age.

The cast list for ICONOCLAST reads like a 'Who's Who' of the American Underground and includes filmmakers Allison Anders and Ray Dennis Steckler, artists Coop, Jeffrey Vallance, Johanna Went, Beth Moore-Love, musicians Don Bolles (The Germs), Matt Skiba (Alkaline Trio), Gidget Gein (Marilyn Manson and The Spooky Kids), industrial music pioneer Z'EV, Rozz Williams (Christian Death), Douglas P (Death in June), Dwid Hellion (Integrity), Robert Turman (NON), Robert Lopez (El Vez, The Zeros), writer/publisher Adam Parfrey, Jim Morton (co-author and co-editor with Boyd Rice on Incredibly Strange Films), DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, Satanists Blanche Barton and Stanton LaVey plus many many more.

"This documentary is better than my documentary. I wish my documentary had been directed by Larry Wessel. LARRY WESSEL'S ICONOCLAST really captures pop culture at it's best. LARRY WESSEL'S ICONOCLAST is epic in length but I left wanting to see more! When this film comes to your city, don't miss it!"
-Rodney (Rodney on The ROQ) Bingenheimer,
KROQ FM
The Mayor of The Sunset Strip

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