Shane West, Rodger Grossman, and Bijou Phillips on set.
DARBY CRASH WAS ONE OF PUNK’S GRITTIEST LEGENDS. A NEW FILM BY DIRECTOR RODGER GROSSMAN TAKES A LOOK AT THE LEGEND WITH A LETHAL FIVE-YEAR PLAN
Like a savvy Internet mogul or budding politician, Darby Crash had a five-year plan. The ragged frontman for 1970s wiseass punk quartet the Germs wanted to launch his band, fashion himself into an icon, and then die within a half-decade. These gritty, bloody, glorious years are the subject of Rodger Grossman’s debut feature film, What We Do Is Secret, a project that’s been in the works for twelve years.
Grossman, an American Film Institute grad who’s logged countless hours on movie sets, first got into punk while a high school student in Los Angeles. He heard the Germs on legendary L.A. radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer’s program and “immediately went out the next day and bought the album,” he said. “I thought it was the most compelling, interesting, darkest, rawest sound I had ever heard.”
“I say it’s been an epic struggle of good versus evil, and evil appears to be winning.” Caryn Ganz
Like a savvy Internet mogul or budding politician, Darby Crash had a five-year plan. The ragged frontman for 1970s wiseass punk quartet the Germs wanted to launch his band, fashion himself into an icon, and then die within a half-decade. These gritty, bloody, glorious years are the subject of Rodger Grossman’s debut feature film, What We Do Is Secret, a project that’s been in the works for twelve years.
Grossman, an American Film Institute grad who’s logged countless hours on movie sets, first got into punk while a high school student in Los Angeles. He heard the Germs on legendary L.A. radio DJ Rodney Bingenheimer’s program and “immediately went out the next day and bought the album,” he said. “I thought it was the most compelling, interesting, darkest, rawest sound I had ever heard.”
“I say it’s been an epic struggle of good versus evil, and evil appears to be winning.” Caryn Ganz
