Mondo, Shockumentary, Death, Real Footage, Documentary; Paperback Book (160 pages) Headpress publishing
Mondo Cane in 1962 was the blueprint for a shocking, controversial and influential documentary film cycle. Known collectively as "mondo films" or "shockumentaries," this enduring series of films is a precursor of the reality TV show. A box-office draw for three decades and later becoming a staple of the video rental market, these explosive exposes would often pass fabricated scenes as fact in order to give the public a sensationalist, highly emotive view of the world. Sweet & Savage is the first-ever English-language book devoted exclusively to the mondo documentary film. A study of mondo as a global film phenomenon, it includes a detailed examination of the key films and includes exclusive interviews with the godfathers of this cult genre.
Undergorund Film, Abel Ferrara, Harmony Korinne, Cult, Exploitation, Warhol; Paperback Book - 235 pages
Whether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles, Jack Smith, or Harmony Korine, underground cinema has achieved an important position within American film culture. Often defined as "cult" and "exploitation" or "alternative" and "independent," the American underground retains separate strategies of production and exhibition from the cinematic mainstream, while its sexual and cinematic representations differ from the traditionally conservative structures of the Hollywood system. Underground U.S.A. offers a fascinating overview of this area of maverick moviemaking by considering the links between the experimental and exploitative traditions of the American underground.
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists. The Reader traces the development of major movements such as the New American Cinema of the 1960s and the Structuralist films of the 1970s, examining the work of key practitioners and recovering neglected filmmakers. Contributors focus on the ways in which underground films have explored issues of gender, sexuality and race, and foreground important technical innovations such as the use of Super 8mm and video. Includes essays by: Sydney P. Adams, Stan Brakhage, Wheeler Winston Dixon, David Ehrenstein, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Surajan Ganguly, Gloria Gibson, Peter Gidal, Kate Haugh, Chris Holmlund and more.
Horror, Hardcover, George Romero, Night of the Living Dead ; Hardcover Book (2015) - NO DUSTJACKET! (Hence price) - VGC
In this comprehensive portrait of horror's definitive director, Tony Williams ties George A. Romero's films to the development of literary naturalism and American culture, expanding the artist's creative footprint beyond his mastery of the "splatter movie" genre. Williams locates Romero's influences in the work of Emile Zola, the Entertainment Comics of the 1950s, and the novels of Stephen King, revealing the interdisciplinary depth of his seminal films Night of the Living Dead (1968), Creepshow (1982), Monkey Shines (1988), and The Dark Half (1992). For this second edition, Williams reads Romero's Bruiser (2000) against his more recent Land of the Dead (2005) and takes a fresh look at Diary of the Dead (2007) and Survival of the Dead (2009), two overlooked films that feature Romero's greatest achievements yet
Experimental, Sound Collage, Noise, The Dead C, Bruce Russell, New Zealand, Melbourne; CD (2000) Rare!
Live in Melbourne 1999. Recorded at the Public Bar and the Punters Club 22-23 May 1999. Contains looped analogue samples taken from the Anabase LP by A Handful Of Dust.
Industrial, Experimental, Drone, Dark Ambient, Noise; Double LP (Limited Edition 2017 re-issue) EX condition
Limited edition of 499 copies on black vinyl.
This album is comprised of remixes of Coil's music that were originally used as the soundtrack for the performance art piece "Plastic Spider Thing." It was first released on Coil's Eskaton label in 2002, credited to Black Sun Productions only. The marketing of the work as "Coil with Black Sun Productions" was undertaken by Rustblade Records, the label that reissued it in 2017, a number of years after the passing of both John Balance and Peter Christopherson.
Power Electronics, Experimental, Noise, Darkwave, Industrial, Limited Edition; Vinly LP - Mint
Limited edition of 500 copies, all on clear red vinyl in a gatefold jacket.
Experimental, Avant Garde, Limited Edition, Special Edition; Vinyl LP (2011)
Limited to 180 copies (sold out) contains 3 double sided cover art sleeves, postcard and info sheet in EX condition
Full title: Inverted Triangle II: Medusa's Hypnagogic Hall Of Mirrors
