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Byron Coley | ... |
Self - Rock Critic
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Paul Drummond | ... |
Self - Elevators Biographer
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13th Floor Elevators | ... |
Themselves (archiveFootage)
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Don Erickson | ... |
Self
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Evelyn Erickson | ... |
Self
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Mikel Erickson | ... |
Self
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Roky Erickson | ... |
Self
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Sumner Erickson | ... |
Self
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Jim Franklin | ... |
Self - Artist
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Harvey Gann | ... |
Self - Austin Police Captain 1946-1983
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Burt Gerding | ... |
Self - Austin Police 1950-1972
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Billy Gibbons | ... |
Self - ZZ Top
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Clementine Hall | ... |
Self - Elevators Lyricist
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Tommy Hall | ... |
Self - Elevators Band Leader (archiveFootage)
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Renee Harden | ... |
Self - Ex-Girlfriend
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Gibby Haynes | ... |
Self - Butthole Surfers
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Chet Helms | ... |
Self - Rock Promoter
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Kurt Loder | ... |
Self - MTV
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Casey Monahan | ... |
Self - Editor, 'The Lyrics of Roky Erickson'
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Thurston Moore | ... |
Self - Sonic Youth
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Bob Priest | ... |
Self - Rusk Psychologist
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Holly Shull | ... |
Self
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Patti Smith | ... |
Self - Musician
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Virginia Sumners | ... |
Self - Prayer Group Leader
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Gregg Turner | ... |
Self - Angry Samoans
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Peggy Underwood | ... |
Self - Attorney
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John Ike Walton | ... |
Self - 13th Floor Elevators Drummer
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Directed by
Keven McAlester |
Produced by
Laura Boyd DeSmeth | ... | executive producer |
Adrienne Gruben | ... | producer |
Dante Harper | ... | co-producer (as D.W. Harper) |
Clay Hollingsworth | ... | co-executive producer |
Lauren Hollingsworth | ... | co-producer / executive producer |
Keven McAlester | ... | producer |
Amanda Micheli | ... | associate producer |
Kate Roughan | ... | associate producer |
Cinematography by
Lee Daniel |
Editing by
Victor Livingston |
Editorial Department
Lori Ball | ... | additional editor |
Sam Bauer | ... | co-editor |
Matthew Clarke | ... | additional editor |
Jason Free | ... | assistant editor |
Scott Freeman | ... | Artist Inventor of Agnostic Tapeless Conform Workflow includes Roundtrip / Finishing Artist |
Dante Harper | ... | additional editor (as D.W. Harper) |
David Klagsbrun | ... | additional editor |
Jeff Pierce | ... | on-line editor |
Douglas Salkin | ... | post production supervisor (as Doug Salkin) |
Clark Andrew Vogeler | ... | additional editor (as Clark Vogeler) |
Jeffrey M. Werner | ... | co-editor |
Scott Freeman | ... | assistant on-line editor (uncredited) |
Sound Department
Craig Burton | ... | sound |
Patrick Giraudi | ... | re-recording mixer |
Dante Harper | ... | sound (as D.W. Harper) |
Alex Herrera | ... | sound |
Markus Innocenti | ... | supervising sound editor |
Jackie Johnson | ... | dialogue editor |
Dennis Meehan | ... | sound |
Rod O'Brien | ... | sound effects editor |
Jesse Pomeroy | ... | supervising sound editor |
Nida Sinnokrot | ... | sound |
Paul Stanley | ... | post sound coordinator |
Camera and Electrical Department
Jeff Garton | ... | camera assistant |
Tom Hennig | ... | additional photographer |
David Layton | ... | camera assistant |
Rob McGrath | ... | camera assistant |
Jawad Metni | ... | additional photographer |
Amanda Micheli | ... | additional photographer |
P.K. Munson | ... | camera assistant |
Adam Schwartz | ... | camera assistant |
Isabelle Strollo | ... | camera assistant |
Danielle Tsuboi | ... | camera assistant (as Dani Tsuboi) |
Music Department
Daniel Epstein | ... | performer: additional score / writer: additional score |
Additional Crew
Josh Braun | ... | distribution advisor |
Leonora Epstein | ... | production assistant |
Andy Goldman | ... | title designer |
Roger Kass | ... | distribution advisor (as Roger E. Kass) |
Thanks
Eve Epstein | ... | impossible without |
Jeanne Fay | ... | impossible without |
Clay Hollingsworth | ... | impossible without |
Karyn Kusama | ... | impossible without |
Alison Schapker | ... | impossible without |
Karen Schmeer | ... | very special thanks |
Amy Talkington | ... | impossible without |
Jacques Vroom III | ... | impossible without (as Jacques Edward Vroom III) |
Peter Zinda | ... | impossible without |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Palm Pictures (2007) (United States) (theatrical)
- Palm Pictures (2007) (United States) (DVD)
- Red Envelope Entertainment (2007) (United States) (DVD)
- Showtime Networks (2007) (United States) (tv)
- SundanceTV (2007) (United States) (tv)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Cartoon Network (archival film footage courtesy of)
- Dick Clark Productions (archival film footage courtesy of)
- Mission Post (sound post-production)
- The Roky Erickson Trust (archival film footage courtesy of)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Outside Austin, Texas, a 53-year-old man sits in an apartment with four radios, three televisions, two amps, a radio scanner, and an electric piano playing. At the same time. Loudly. He has three teeth, his hair is matted into one huge dreadlock, and he has a notarized document on his wall declaring himself an alien, "so whoever's putting shocks to my head will stop." Thirty years earlier, Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson was a rock-and-roll icon: A manic singer who was Janis Joplin's primary influence, he fronted a band called the 13th Floor Elevators, considered by many to be the creators of psychedelic music. After a 1969 marijuana arrest, Erickson entered an insanity plea and was sent to the Rusk State Hospital, a medieval institution deep in the east Texas pineforests. He remained there for three years with the state's most violent mentally ill offenders, then reemerged a changed man: He sang about ghouls, zombies, and Satan, christened himself "the evil one," and declared himself an alien. At some point he stopped recording altogether and disappeared: "the great lost vocalist of rock and roll." For the past 12 years, Erickson has lived as a total recluse, shut in with his white noise and watching cartoons all day. He collects junk-mail by the stack. He only opens the door for his mother, Evelyn. Evelyn spends her days in their crumbling family home, abandoned by her other four sons and husband, doing yoga and reimagining her life through homemade films and "storyboards"--large planks of cardboard onto which she's pasted family photos and written out the story of their lives, "to convince myself that I'd been a good mother." Through them, she slowly charts the disintegration of their family. Her youngest son Sumner, the only family member to have escaped, has not returned home in ten years. He hears of his brother's situation and vows to persuade his mother to cede control of Roky in a "crusade to give his brother his life and music back." Upon his arrival, Roky and Evelyn's insular world slowly unravels. Written by Palm Pictures |
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Box Office
Opening Weekend United States | $1,340, 10 Jun 2007 |
Did You Know?
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