With wits, cunning and a lot naivety a bunch of L.A. music enthusiasts set out to organize their own DIY concerts in the middle of the Mojave in the early 1980s. (Oddly enough, even the West Berlin underground played a partnin that.) Almost 40 years later, the documentrary captures this spirited moment in time and one might wonder about the crucial social parallels to our present ...
With original film clips, never shown before archival footage and memoirs by the protagonists and participating bands, Desolation Center is a film as lucid as it is touching!