documentaries

[ghoulson]

Last week I got "The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata" DVD. I enjoyed it a lot but it felt like the possibilities of a documentary dealing with D'Agata was restrained by the limited and reserved nature of the journalist team. Still it had many good moments and is absolutely worth the money. Afterwards I watched his own feature film "Aka Ana". 

Antoine D'Agata, a photographer from Magnum Agency, is in Phom Penh (Cambodia). Drugs, sex and errance are his autobiographical subjects, but in Cambodia his artistic trail seems to reach an utmost point.
After devoting his art to picture desolated landscapes and borderline realities all around the world, Antoine D'Agata focuses his art on body and flesh, in a narrow room.
In Cambodia he spends many weeks locked in Lee's room. Antoine lives a kind of desperate and paradoxal « love story »  with Lee, a prostitute, smoking dope and trying to take pictures of his intimate relationship with her.
This film catches the hidden part of his art-life; his choice of living sex and drugs as both cure and conviction. An apocalyptic and sublime course, similar to the ones of other heretic artists of contemporary culture, from Kerouac to Artaud, from Bacon to Pasolini.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBN_1YWyOs

[bitewerksMTB]

"Afterwards I watched his own feature film "Aka Ana".  "

I want to see "Aka Ana". Do you have the dvd or a link?

[ghoulson]

"Afterwards I watched his own feature film "Aka Ana".  "

I want to see "Aka Ana". Do you have the dvd or a link?

YOU need to see this. If you remind me I'll make you a DVDR of it.

[bitewerksMTB]

I'm reminding you now! Make me a dvd-r!

[Otomo_Hava]

Laibach: A Film From Slovenia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgQ3uW0R4wI

[Otomo_Hava]

People Who Do Noise (2008)

Full Concert Movie Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrN6PeIiOU

[Otomo_Hava]

Beyond Ultra-Violence: Uneasy Listening by Merzbow (1998) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzxOLHqqS88

Oh! Moro Volume 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpKuE2rJt_s

Kingdom Of Noise - Japanese Noise Selection (Full Video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtHGOYgSYc8

[redswordwhiteplough]

Just started watching this documentary in six parts

Rebels: A Journey Underground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsziYpdKy0

[andy vomit]

Hers is that tape, it's pretty good Ted Bundy interview, then after that you find out its an anti pornography propaganda film.

hah, i bought that at a salvation army for about ten cents, but i knew full well it was an anti-porn thing...  it was titled "PORNOGRAPHY: ADDICTIVE, DANGEROUS AND DEADLY" or something like that, and it said in small letters "contains ted bundy's final interview" ... i remember being kinda pissed that bundy sorta falls right in line with the religious dude.  granted, he was getting executed the next day, and i know a lot of people find god and stuff... 

[ghoulson]

Even though it lacks a lot of on screen violence, I think this film works better than the original Faces Of Death, I found out about it in a film class in college, and was lucky enough to be given a bootleg copy of it on vhs.

An incredible documentary and highly respectful in tackling its subject IMHO (there was even recently a dedicated article about it in an issue of the esteemed UK film magazine Sight and Sound). I had the pleasure to see Des Morts projected in a cinema from an original print during a film festival retrospective of Thierry Zero's work some years back, also got to see Vase de Noces there too. Unfortunately there were a couple of wankers who kept openly laughing all the way through Des Morts who must have thought they were watching Faces of Gore at a house party or something; not in an art house cinema with the director present...

Someone asked Thierry Zeno after the screening if he could sign his copy of the DVD edition attached above - he flat-out refused because the DVD is unauthorised by him and it contains an extra added scene that wasn't in the original screening, plus, just look at the fucking cover... would you sign that?! I've not seen the DVD version but it used to sell for mere dollars last time I checked - the same company also released all the Jacopetti mondo films too (in similarly awful DVD covers) before Blue Underground did them justice.

Love the face peeling scene in Orozco.

It looks like shit.... I used to have several of the bootleg releases from that label but sold them since the quality was awful. I can recommend the swedish edition of Des Morts (also of his other movie). They are 100% authorized releases and much cheaper than i.e. Camera Obscura. Heard something about it being a cut version but I don't really care... 

http://www.njutafilms.com/en-studie-i-dod/
http://www.njutafilms.com/svinet/

[online prowler]

Room 237

Directed by Rodney Ascher, 2012.

Kubrick's film The shining, individual obsessions and conspiracy theories; all under the microscope.

[chibitachop]

Room 237

Directed by Rodney Ascher, 2012.

I love The Shining conspiracy theories and thus was very excited to see "Room 237" however I found it to be very poorly executed. Half the movie clips they use appear to be sourced from youtube they look so shitty, but moreover I can't stand documentaries like this that are edited to mock the subject of the documentary - in this case the use of unrelated clips and/or music is more often than not satirizing the sincere thoughts of the people being interviewed with the subtlety of an elementary schoolyard bully. Some of the ideas people in "Room 237" are definitely absurd to the point of comedic but the ham-fisted way the director tried to constantly broadcast "WOW ISN'T WHAT THIS GUY SAYING CRAAAZZY!?!?!?" as overtly as possible via editing felt really unnecessary, amateurish & regrettable to me. I would've much preferred if they actually showed the people being interviewed w/o any extraneous accompaniment rather than exclusively showing movie clips over the interview audio.

The most telling part of the whole thing is when they show a title card explaining that the MSTRMND blog guy (who has the most extreme in-depth Shining conspiracy theories I am aware of) declined to be interviewed so they just show his website and have the guy from Excepter sounding really stoned be like "yeah man, this shit is like..... craazzy, right?" I can only assume the MSTRMND guy could tell the people making this movie were jokers and wanted to save himself the embarrassment of involvement in this documentary.

[Bleak Existence]

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

[online prowler]

THE SECRET GLORY (2001, documentary).

Richard Stanley (director of Dust Devil and Hardware) spins the real life story of SS officer Otto Rahn and his search for the Holy Grail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1prqhIq4uc

[tiny_tove]

steve ignorant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23851982