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[charloween]

The best thing about taking a class in experimental film is that I'll always come home traumatized from what I've seen. We screen around seven films each week: one will take my breath away in its beauty, one will scar me for life, and the other five will be okay.

This week's awesome film was Transitions (Barbara Sternberg, Canada, 1982).

This week's scary film was Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, USA, 1947).

When she introduced the second film, she told us it was directed by a 17-year-old when his parents were out of town for the weekend. What she *didn't* tell us was that the film was an S&M-tinged homoerotic trance film (similar to a psychodrama) featuring the rape/physical assault of a young man by a bunch of buff sailor boys. A couple words of preparation would have been a nice buffer between that and the more lyrical and whimsical stuff we screened. I'm okay with the content, it just came a bit of a shock considering the intro she gave.

So as salve I'm listening to NIN songs that start with "The". ("The Fragile", "The Perfect Drug", "The Great Below", etc.)

Comments

[pyratelady.livejournal.com]

First of all: ew, ew, EW!

Also, I think your teacher didn't tell you the real story of the movie in order to maximize the shock. trauma, and the impact of the movie. And because she's a sadist who hates her students, possibly.

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

First of all: ew, ew, EW!

I left out the part where they poured 'milk' all over him to wash off the blood and gore...

And because she's a sadist who hates her students, possibly.

Very possible. She seems like a sweet thing, but she *is* doing her PhD on wacky experimental films, and that's got to *do* something to you.

[omicron34.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm trying to figure out what's worse...on screen raping..or on screen pistol execution. My Chinese movie class has all these people getting pistol shot head shot executions..mmmmm

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

At least the two aren't combined. That would be worst.

[requiem-unbound.livejournal.com]

I watched Pulp Fiction for the first time yesterday night. Very, very good but that whole ODing and adernaline needle bit was slightly tramatizing... also the bit in the basement of the shop, mostly because I had no idea what was really going on until Butch went through the door with the sword...oh my...
"Zed's dead, baby..."

Also, no worries about icons... whenever is cool or it's all right if you can't do them anymore. :)

[naturelf.livejournal.com]

"Get the gimp."

Hee!

I'll get the icons. Eventually. *wibble*