rosebud017
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Invigorating no-budget agitprop craziness by Austrian art-tech-maniacs "monochrom". Grenzfurthner and his merry band of discourse-pranksters are well-known for creating interesting little universes (like "Soviet Unterzoegersdorf") to make entertaining political and philosophical statements. "Die Gstettensaga", their first feature film, is taking classic post-apocalyptic tropes to tell a story of subculture and its inevitable corruption and decay. Is it an allegory for the Egyptian Revolution of 2011? Or for the demise of punk? Or for the impossibility of freedom of information? All of it, I assume, and more... and spiced with plenty of nerdy references that will make you squeal with delight.
Gstettensaga is a lot of fun -- and it will leave you with a refreshingly bitter aftertaste.
Gstettensaga is a lot of fun -- and it will leave you with a refreshingly bitter aftertaste.
The utterly senseless torture of the family in "Funny Games" isn't nearly as disturbing as our complicit witnessing on it... Upon first viewing, Haneke knows his audience better than we know ourselves. We believe that we only continue to watch "Funny Games" because we are empathizing with its characters. No. We are not. We love it. By watching, we are agreeing, we are complicit -- and Haneke is our Austrian dungeon master. A sadist. To be clear: I don't think I like Haneke's approach. It's like watching a pointless vivisection. It's destructive. His corpus of work is an anatomy of hatred, but I'm not sure what can actually be learned from it.
(As a side note: I think that there should be a pen & paper RPG about Haneke's worlds. About genital self-mutilation, cancer, sorrow, stunbolt guns. Would be way more extreme than "Call of Cthulhu".)
(As a side note: I think that there should be a pen & paper RPG about Haneke's worlds. About genital self-mutilation, cancer, sorrow, stunbolt guns. Would be way more extreme than "Call of Cthulhu".)
A little gem, but barely mentioned beyond Ballard fan circles. This short film was made for the BBC in 1971. The film is driven by a narration by author JG Ballard that moves, shifting from analysis of the psychology of the car to the examination of the role of the writer. Ballard's steady, calm narration is broken by short readings of extracts taken from Ballard's literary work detailing the fetishistic pleasure of the flow of women's bodies and cars. Accompanying these are scenes in which Ballard drives a large American car, walks around a car showroom and through a ruined car yard. An experimental, haunting piece of TV history.