| Overview: | Underground Cinema first appeared in the 1960s with groundbreaking works by filmmakers as Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol, whose films dealt with provocative subjects such as politics, sex, magic and death. Cinema of Death compiles some of the most recent extreme films made, featuring raw, poetic, explosive images that will enter into and linger in the subconscious.
ADORATION
Directed by Olivier Smolders, Belgium/1987
15 mins., B&W
The true story of a Japanese man's love crazed obsession for a woman, which ends in cannibalism.
DISLANDIA
Directed by Brian M. Viveros, USA/2005
29 mins., B&W
A disturbing observance of Lindsey – a child existing in an indistinguishable time and place, haunted by surrealist visions.
PIG
Directed by Nico B, USA/1999
23 mins., B&W
A poetic film in which we see the subconscious of a killer transform into abstract forms and material, all deriving from his suffering and desperation. Featuring Rozz Williams (Christian Death).
HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
Directed by Nico B, USA/2000
4 mins., B&W
An homage to Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon, shot at the Museum of Death, Ca.
LE POEM
Directed by Bogdan Borkowski, France/1986
12 mins., Color
An actual autopsy of a human body accompanied by the poem ‘The Drunken Boat' by Arthur Rimbaud.
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