"Death Is Their Destiny" - Home-movies of London punks 1978-81

"Death Is Their Destiny" is the first of eight punk films I shot on the King's Road between 1978 and 1981...

London 1977: By day Phil Munnoch was a mild-mannered copywriter working for an ad agency in the heart of the city. 

Being part of the gang allowed Munnoch access to film his friends and acquaintances and between 1978 and 1981, in the guise of Captain Zip, Munnoch documented the street life of punks on the King’s Road. In the 1980s, Munnoch collected the first eight of these Super-8 home movies together to make the short documentary film Death Is Their Destiny that captured the subculture of punks in London.