Hello, my name is Justin McLuhan. I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today we're talking about an underground artist.

Yes, that's right. Damon Packard. There's a very good chance that you haven't heard of or seen any films by Damon Packard. There's a good reason for that.

You're never going to see them on any streaming service. And, tooby will play them for you.

Okay, okay, that's right. Toby will put anything on lawyers be damned. But this is somebody who, like,

when people say that their movies aren't going to be legally

released, you know, oftentimes, of course, those problems get worked out. But there are certain

films that Damon Packard has made that I really don't think can be legally released. So one of

them we're going to talk about today. It did get struck with a kind of lawsuit and you had to cut

out one of the songs. Interesting.

But other than that, I feel like he's gone through it because as he's discussed in interviews, why not? Like, why wouldn't I do this? It's not like these movies are going to get wide distribution anyway. And this is one of the things. There's a lot I respect about Damon Packard, but this is one of the things I respect about him. He has devoted his life and, I don't know if career is the right word, but he's devoted his life to making these movies that are intensely personal and that are

sort of like, I don't know, reclaiming the culture for us. Kind of Eastward Cinema by Damon Packard.

Like, that's what all his movies are. Yeah. If they were a little bit more fun

than the Jean de Gouard variety. So his films include Reflections of Evil. That's probably his

acknowledged masterpiece from 2002, as well as Untitled Star Wars mockumentary from 2003,

the more recent Fatal Pulse and many others, they are hard to describe. This is something

for Justin only. Imagine if David the Rock Nelson was a genius. That's kind of what he's like,

but I mean, that's useless. David the Rock Nelson's even more obscure than David Packard.

You could say it's a variation on David Lynch if he kept making Inland Empire in different forms.

And if he wasn't David Lynch, if he was a guy who really was sort of living and filming on the margins

and, you know, could not have a meeting with Studio Canal anytime he wanted to.

There's no conventionally beautiful images in Damon Packard

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