“Screen Printing” (1985) by AXEMEN

The AXEMEN were all screen printers when they banged into each other while in Dunedin 1983. Lawrence Lens shot this Super 8 flick in which Stu Kowalski takes the punters on a journey down Screen Printer’s Lane, demonstrating the process of making one (untypically tiny) poster for a peace gig where the AXEMEN played in Christchurch Cathedral (true) and were interrupted mid-set by the announcement that Nelson Mandela had been freed! (The AXEMEN had previously often included riffs from the …