VDOC shines a light on the 1970s/80s Vancouver Art/Punk Scene, with a particular focus on Punk's peculiar ability to defy easy or stable categorization and its ability to take on different forms over time and in different places.

For fans and scholars of Punk, it offers rare, vintage video footage of the bands that made it happen, as well as insights from band members featured in that footage. Nowhere else will you find such broad and thorough documentation of the music, art, politics, energy, attitude and anti-fashion that came out of those halcyon days  . . . From Rabid to Subhumans, from Tunnel Canary to Los Populars, from UJ3RK5 to Young Canadians.

These are the people that contributed to what "Vancouver Punk" has come to mean and who seek to continue invoking its meanings in new forms. Using the videos as a lens to focus dialogue and pro-active social policy, members will speak to: issues of identity in the punk scene; the relationship between the individual and the collective, the local and the global; and, the future of punk and the people who made it happen.

The videos stand on their own merit, but we also want them to focus some smart thinking about Punk's history and its relevance today. We want this site to stimulate conversations about what it meant and means to "be Punk," what a Punk sensibility offers the modern world, the future and the people who will make it happen.