‍A Punk Rock Blade Runner for Artists!!!

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Numbskull Revolution took nine long years to complete and witnessed the end of the 29-year marriage and creative partnership of Moritsugu and Davis. This grand finale is their most epic and fully-realized motion picture. Ostensibly a riff on the absurdity of art, warfare of people, material control/secular terror, addictions of every genre, and self-actualization thru internal Jungian conflict, it is -  at its most base level - a full-on and mega-entertaining cinematic odyssey tinged with ludicrous sci-fi, raw poignancy, and utter brutalism.  

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Numbskull Revolution premiered at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) in February 2026 and has since screened - traveling roadshow style - at kick-ass theaters, cool high art repositories, and punk rock clubhouses in 25 cities in the USA, Australia, and Canada. It will be premiering soon in Europe and South America. NO FILM FESTIVAL SCREENINGS! NO LEGIT DISTRIBUTION!

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"Amy Davis and James Duval play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension."

    - Paul Malcolm: Senior Public Programmer, UCLA Film & Television Archive/Hammer Museum

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dir. Jon Moritsugu, 2026
United States, digital projection
95 min

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SATURDAY, 10/24
7:30P DOORS
8:00P SCREENING

Followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Jon Moritsugu!

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$10 general admission.

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Jon Moritsugu (Mod Fuck Explosion, Fame Whore, Terminal USA, Scumrock), “The Godfather of Punk Cinema,” has returned from the near-dead with Numbskull Revolution, his eighth feature! This collaboration with his now ex-wife, Amy Davis, marks the OFFICIAL COMEBACK for this Grammy-nominated Oscar Contender, who is arguably the world’s most uncompromising and extreme movie director. Numbskull Revolution, shot in 2017 in Santa Fe and Marfa, stars James Duval (“Frank the Bunny” from Donnie Darko) and Amy Davis (as twin sisters).

‍IG: @jon.moritsugu

www.jonmoritsugu.com

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