documentaries

[RyanWreck]

Documentary about the !Alarma! gore Zne. Really good watch. (Spanish with Hard Subtitles.)

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/vbs-news/alarma-1-of-3

[Jaakko V.]

Alix Lambert - The Mark of Cain

Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russias most notorious prisons, including the fabled White Swan, the film traces the animus of the flowers of this carnal art by way of the brutality of its origins- the penitentiary and the criminal environment. Incisive interviews with prisoners, guards, and criminologists reveal the secret language of The Zone and The Code of Thieves of the vory v zakone.

As early as the 1920s, Russian prisons and Gulag began to attract the attention of researchers. The prisoners of the Stalinist Gulag, or "Zone," as it is called, developed a complex social structure that incorporated highly symbolic tattooing as a mark of rank. The very existence of these inmates at prisons and forced labor camps was treated by the state as a deep secret, and their tattoo art was considered a forbidden topic.

In the last decade, Russia's prison population has exploded; overcrowding has reached unimaginable proportions. Few other nations have had such a massive prison population. The most conservative estimates suggest that in the last decades, over thirty million of Russia's inmates have had tattoos even though the process is against the law inside prison. According to The Book of Genesis, God placed a mark on the world's first murderer before sending him into exile. The mark of Cain proclaimed its bearer as a criminal and social outcast; for centuries, prisoners and those who broke social codes were forcibly tattooed. In Russian prisons, tattooing emerged as a visual mode of communication linked with social division. The Mark of Cain tells the story of a fading art form and how that practice's death reflects transition in broader Russian society.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Capturing The Friedmans

I have the 2xDVD edition of the document. Plenty of bonus material on 2nd disc. Good document, especially how it's created with pretty much no stand taken into any direction. Allowing people to talk, presenting themselves either in good or bad way, allowing also people to pretty much talk (most likely) made up stories what are later shown to be inaccurate. Case is left open. There is hardly a "real" conclusion what exactly did happen. In bonus material they talk how differently people react on it. How there were moments when people didn't leave the cinema, but stayed there arguing with rest of viewers about what infact happened.

[Voûte]

Documentary about the !Alarma! gore Zne. Really good watch. (Spanish with Hard Subtitles.)

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/vbs-news/alarma-1-of-3

Do you know if it's possible to order/buy that Alarma magazine somewhere? I can't read spanish and i can't find the place on their website about ordering it.

[jake]

Alarma is (relatively) easy to find around Los Angeles. And I would assume other cities with large Mexican populations. 

[MT]

Yesterday I saw Video Diaries of Ricardo Lopez, the infamous Björk 'stalker'. 1 hour and 44min package out of the 40 hours of video diaries the guy made. First he is very upset with Björk because she was in a relationship with a nigger. This thing sets him off to plan and build a bomb to send for her. The doc consists of his rants and some planning and bomb building. His mind really starts to fall apart after he quits his job and the end is really great. The last 10 minutes are really intense when he has totally lost it. Paints his face with green and red, no clothes on.  then when the last song of is playing and he is breathing heavily the last breaths of his life, yells out some aggressive last words and finally putting a bullet in his head. Interesting trip to a mind of a lunatic with 100% realism.

[ABISSO]

1 hour and 44min

fuck

i ever seen only the final ^_^

I had no idea there was all this material

[tiny_tove]

impossible.
This movies doesn't even exist in Italian language.
Once lost my vhs I never found again anybody owning it.

Is this it?
http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-4e08146c-8b6b-4add-ae93-d6e0d333be3a.html?p=0

I am in tears... yes, that's the one...

impressive sounds ;)

[bitewerksMTB]

I received a dvd-r of the VIDEO DIARIES a couple wks back. Made it to the horrendous nudity. Not really that interesting to watch but the rants are amazing. Hard to believe no one has used samples. Guess I'll have to forward to the final 10 minutes.

[halthan]

Reindeerspotting
Main character was just found dead. Another narc gone

[Niko]

Reindeerspotting
Main character was just found dead. Another narc gone

Yeah, he hanged himself in Cambodia.
Pics:

[halthan]

Reindeerspotting
Main character was just found dead. Another narc gone

Yeah, he hanged himself in Cambodia.
Pics:

Actually, it was quite harsh doc

[MT]

I enjoyed Reindeerspotting, shows brutally the lifestyle of a regular narc. Slowly developing to more and more extreme abuse of drugs (esp. after the doc). First I had hard time believing that person in the pictures could be him, but then again Reindeer was filmed in 2003, so 7 years can chance the outlook of a person a lot, especially if you are a narc.

[halthan]

I enjoyed Reindeerspotting, shows brutally the lifestyle of a regular narc. Slowly developing to more and more extreme abuse of drugs (esp. after the doc). First I had hard time believing that person in the pictures could be him, but then again Reindeer was filmed in 2003, so 7 years can chance the outlook of a person a lot, especially if you are a narc.

Yeah, it was really absurd, when he want abroad. He was like a kid in candystore, and next moment "I´m gonna stop subutex" then few minutes passed, and he was doing heroin and coke. I just wonder he lived this far

[ConcreteMascara]

I used to spend a lot of time around drug scum and I'm always surprised people don't die sooner. It's like the desire for drugs keeps people kicking around long after their brain has stopped functioning at full capacity. In the city it's fairly easy to keep up a somewhat decent facade around normal people while you're rapidly deteriorating on the inside. The "need" keeps people alive. Granted a few years of abusing drugs regularly will seriously deteriorate your appearance.