Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei/ Shuji Terayama


WIKI: Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司, Terayama Shūji?, December 10, 1935—May 4, 1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters[1], he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup
: A young boy is the emperor of a country in which children have overthrown the adults.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Tromeo and Juliet/ Lloyd Kaufman


WIKI: Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment. The film was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and co-directed by James Gunn, who also wrote the film's screenplay.

The film is more or less a faithful adaptation of the play except with the addition of extreme amounts of Troma-esque sexuality and violence. The title of the film is a portmanteau of "Troma" and "Romeo & Juliet".

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Sentimental Punk/ Kurt Kren



Kurt Kren (September 20, 1929 - died in Vienna on June 23, 1998) was an Austrian avantgarde filmmaker. He is best known for his involvement with the Vienna Aktionists and the group of films that resulted.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Shabondama Elegy/ Aryan Kaganof





WIKI: Aryan Kaganof (born Ian Kerkhof) is a South African film maker, novelist, poet and fine artist. In 1999 he changed his name to Aryan Kaganof.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Le sexe enragé de la fée sanguinaire/Roland Lethem

WIKI: Roland Lethem (born 1942) is a Belgian filmmaker and writer.

Influenced at his beginnings by Bunuel, Cocteau, the surrealists and by the Japanese cinema (Seijun Suzuki, Ishirô Honda, Koji Wakamatsu, Yoko Ono), stunned by the Festival of the film expérimental of Knokke in 1967 and by May 1968, Roland Lethem wants to push the people to look at the things of which they say they are freed, it's to say to place them in front of their responsabilities. Even if sometimes the results leaves much to be desired, the idea of each one of his films is seductive and exemplary. A fact is certain, his films are disturbing, they are sometimes unpleasant to look at.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Fame Whore/ Jon Moritsugu




IMDb: This film involves three interwoven stories with the only seeming connection being the delusions of the involved leads. In the first element of the film, a hot-tempered world tennis star loses endorsement contracts when the press outs him even though he claims the report is false. In the second, a talent-less woman struggles to make it in the world of fashion design or the music video business. In the last, an animal activist runs a dog-adoption agency and has an imaginary friend who appears in a St. Bernard suit. Written by John Sacksteder

Monday, August 2, 2010

I Was a Teenage Serial Killer/Sarah Jacobson




WIKI: I Was a Teenage Serial Killer is an underground no budget film written and directed by "The Queen of Underground Film", Sarah Jacobson. It is a short black and white film of a 19 year old girl who is sick of sexist men and kills them. It was Jacobson's first film and it was released through her own company, Station Wagon Productions.

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."