Corrupted, Doom, Real Footage, Deathumentary, Mondo, Shockumentary, Documentary; DVD New Sealed
Japanese documentarian / death photographer Tsurisaki Kiyotaka is back, with his own unique vision of our planet. The Wasteland is a look into the world around us. It is a look into the aftermath of war, religion, and other evil facets that aid in the destruction of Earth. Kiyotaka teams up with the legendary doom metal band Corrupted to set the mood for this epic. Don't look away. The Wasteland is real.
Grant Hart, Husker Du, Biography, Documentary, Music, Hardcore; DVD (2013)
Writing in City Pages, Reed Fischer said, "In spite of the myriad challenges of his personal and professional life -- the fire, the death of family members, his band's epic dissolution, drug addiction, and coming to terms with his sexual orientation -- Hart comes off as a wiser man for all of it. Hearing the way he describes his close emotional friendship with William S Burroughs is worth the price of admission on its own. Sure, there are numerous bits about Mr. Mould and Mr. Norton too, and they're mostly told with fondness for the fruit before it became poisoned. Hart's slow and deliberate retellings of his past convey an inner strength that hints at why Bechard wanted to spend so much time with him. Capping the tale with the beginnings of Hart's epic interpretation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, The Argument -- Chris Strouth has a lot more to say about the album here -- the story rests itself in the near-present at a high point in Hart's storied career. Not every stone was turned over in this tale, but they all at least got a firm jostling."
Noise, Experimental, Smegma, Yellow Swans, Daniel Menche, Portland, Underground; DVD Self Released
People who do noise is a full-length documentary about Portland music makers.
What is "noise" and what is "music"? And where exactly do the two meet? Or should they? Are they completely different entities, to be appreciated on separate but equal terms? Such questions are apparently the basis of a riveting documentary (see it below) called People Who Do Noise, which focuses on artists working in the experimental music underground of Portland, Oregon. To aficionados of the noise genre, Portland is akin to Liverpool, England in the early '60s, or Seattle, Washington in the early '90s. Made on a shoestring budget of $10,000 back in 2008, People Who Do Noise goes up close and personal with the musicians of this scene, profiling them in candid interviews (they're an opinionated bunch!) and working on music they fully admit isn't for everyone. And that's precisely the point. Perhaps the sounds these performers create aren't your cup of tea, either. That's fine. But the documentary is well worth watching for the interviews. Taken together, they create a fascinating mosaic of a bold, uncompromising musical movement.
Improv, Improvised, Noise, Self Released, Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, San Francisco, Experimental; DVD
Noisy People is a feature length video documentary that opens a window into a tightly-knit group of unusual sound artists and musicians from the San Fransisco improvisational music community. Self Released DVD (2006)
Surreal, Gore, Violent, Erotic, Gruesome, Disturbing, Weird, Netherlands; DVD (2010)
This surreal erotic thriller is set in a flesh-filled and violence-prone butcher shop. A large, lustful butcher, used to living out his sexual fantasies in the shop, becomes interested in Roxy, his young female apprentice. The girl, documenting everything with a video camera, enthusiastically gets involved with him. But when the butcher is murdered and a police inspector, who looks exactly like the dead butcher, investigates the crime, the story takes on a dreamlike quality.
Shocking, Gore, Banned, Mondo, Shockumentary, Real Footage, Mixtape, Death; DVD (Mantra Entertainment)
This one delivers... If You want a shock and You wat to see extreme footage... This one has some of the great clips. Highly recommended!
Gore, Shockumentary, Bloodthirsty, Banned, Real Footage, Mixtape, Mondo, Death; DVD (Mantra Entertainment)
In Banned From Television II, witness the most shocking real life events ever caught on tape. The censors have banned these adrenaline charged moments from television. But now in this unbelievable video you can see first hand an FBI drug bust gone bad, a vicious pit bull attack, horrifying accidents and an explicit sex video of Tonya Harding and Jeff Gilooly. There are no actors and no scripts. Everything is raw, real and... Banned From Television!
Australian, Experimental, Film Art, Independent Release, Short Films, Found Footage; DVD
For the past eight years Australian filmmaker Tony Lawrence has been working almost exclusively with 8mm and 16mm found footage and home movies. He now has a collection over 300 films which bare the physical effects of time, chemical decay, and even rot and mould which he further manipulates to create new works that draw attention to the materiality of the medium. His work has won many
Underground Film Festival awards. Tony says “the affect of decay, grit and damage on these films often forms the context of how I piece together these works.” He goes on to compose strangely haunting electronic soundtracks and use various transfer techniques to convey different moods and create these dreamlike explorations of memory and time.
Disturbing, Wierd, Obscure, Sion Sono, Bizarre, Adults Only, Abstract; DVD - New and Sealed
Anyone who wants evidence to support the stereotype of the bizarre, repression-revealing Japanese film need look no further than the works of Sion Sono. Strange Circus, on the other hands, starts off with a scene that basically says, "Yeah, this is going to be trippy. Fasten your seatbelts."
And it all gets weird from there.
This disc unfortunately does not have English sub-titles
Rare, Unearthed Films, Horror, Psychedelic, Drugs, Experimental, Underground, Cult; DVD
Meditative and trancelike, Frankenstein’s Bloody Nightmare is an avant-garde mood piece. It is complex, abstract, and totally frustrating., but has pockets of immense fun. Like the scene where Victor Frankenstein gives his creature a handjob, which then morphs into a fist-and-arm-job.
Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive Victor uses his mechanically-enhanced reanimated corpse to murder young women in order to furnish "raw parts" for her new body among other devious things. A grainy echo of experimental and fantastic films of years past rendered in wild splashes of saturated super-8 cinematography Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare is the debut feature from writer/producer/director John R. Hand.
