JON MORITSUGU
FILMS

SCUMROCK 2003
79 minutes, analog hi-8
BEST FEATURE
2003 New York Underground Film Festival &
2002 Chicago Underground Film Festival

"A balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll epic" - Film Threat



FAME WHORE 1997
70 minutes, 16mm
BEST FEATURE and FESTIVAL CHOICE
1998 New York Underground Film Festival
SCREENWRITING SEMI-FINALIST - Austin Film Festival
An all-American tennis star hounded by rumors that he's gay, a trust-fund brat on a demonic quest for celebrity and an idealized innocent so isolated he's created a six-foot Saint Bernard as an imaginary friend....


MOD FUCK EXPLOSION 1994
69 minutes, 16mm
BEST FEATURE
1995 New York Underground Film Festival

"A dynamic punk odyssey of a pair of innocent teens adrift in a violent urban world; Moritsugu unleashes a barrage of powerful images and hard-driving music." - Los Angeles Times

"MOD demands to be seen with its flash-and-trash attitude"
- New York Post



TERMINAL, USA 1993
57 minutes, 16mm
Moritsugu was commissioned in 1993 to create
"Terminal USA" for PBS TELEVISION BROADCAST. This program was broadcast in 150+ markets in 1994-1995.

"What happens to the most extreme of West Coast Japanese-American no-budget punk filmmakers when he's given a sizeable budget? The family of junkies, prostitutes, and perverts who carry out their miserable and terminal existence smeared with gore is just as offensive as anything in Moritsugu's earlier DER ELVIS - but competently shot in eyeball-scorching Panavision!" - Afterimage


HIPPY PORN 1991
94 minutes, 16mm
"For those who really get into smart-ass black-and-white films about disaffected kids with cool hair, Moritsugu's look at art school-cum-nihilism is a treat." - SF Bay Guardian

"Bleakly beautiful" - Los Angeles Times



MY DEGENERATION 1989
65 minutes, 16mm
POPULAR CHOICE AWARD
- Big Muddy Film Festival

"The music is great, the experimental techniques are effective, and the humor is very on target" - Psychotronic Video

"An enlivening piece of low-budget effluvia" - Spin



SHORT FILMS