Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Sins of the Fleshapoids/the Kuchar Brothers





WIKI: Sins of the Fleshapoids is a 1965 underground film directed by Mike Kuchar. It is a low-budget, campy sci-fi movie about an android revolt a million years in the future after humans have become too lazy and selfish to take care of themselves. The film was a major influence on cult director John Waters who has said that Sins of the Fleshapoids "really shows what an underground movie was."

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Blood of the Beasts/Georges Franju

WIKI: "Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des bêtes) is a 1949 short French documentary film written and directed by Georges Franju. Blood of the Beasts was Franju's first film and is narrated by Georges Hubert and Nicole Ladmiral.

Franju's film contrasts peaceful scenes of Parisian suburbia with scenes from a slaughterhouse. The film documents the slaughtering of a horse, sheep, and calves; once the horse is stunned by a pistol, it is bled and butchered. The film is narrated without emotive language."

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Recreation/Robert Breer

ABOUT: "A founding member of the American avant-garde, Robert Breer (b. 1926) has been working at the forefront of experimental animation for over fifty years.

Recreation
Directed by Robert Breer, Appearing in Person
US 1956, 16mm blow-up to 35mm, color, 2 min.

Featuring a commentary by Noel Burch (in nonsense French), Recreation's rapid-fire montage of single-frame images of incredible density and intensity has been compared to contemporary Beat poetry."