Many bands associated with famous DIY punk label SST Records have been enshrined for posterity, but SoCal rippers Saccharine Trust, who combined gloomy punk, wiggly free jazz, and other weirdness during SST’s 80s heyday, haven’t gotten their due. In 2000, local filmmaker Jim Sikora released My Char-Broiled Burger With Brewer, which he describes as a “portrait of an old and enduring friendship between two musicians—one who is very successful (Mike Watt of the Minutemen and the Stooges) and the other (Jack Brewer of Saccharine Trust) who is sliding into obscurity.” On Sunday, October 20, at 5:30 PM, the Siskel Film Center will screen the 40-minute film as well as music videos Sikora has shot for the likes of Tar and Urge Overkill, followed by a discussion between Sikora and former Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. Sikora is working on the rock-centric Michael Shannon vehicle I’ll Die Tomorrow and a “smaller picture titled Things I’ve Done, starring David Yow and Brian Dennehy.”
