Carandiru

When i first saw city of god i was blown the fuck away. The next brazillian film i was to see was carandiru, based on a massively over crowded, aid's infected piss stinking prison (although it may as well have been a slum). My opinions of the film throughout were that it was overly dramatic and lacked realism. When you get to the end of the film, those views are flipped round, as you see a fucked up bombard of brazillian police barge through the doors and shoot dead 84 prisoners. Here's a little documentary about the prison.

Awaydays

I know what your probably thinking...'christ, not another football hooligan film'. But Awaydays really does look like its one to blog about. Focusing not just on the violence...but the sex, music and fashion aswell. The trailer definitely looks like it's gonna be a gooden, although I'm not too sure how keen I am on listening to a bunch of gobby scousers rant shit for 105mins. It's out in May this year, but if anyone finds a leak beforehand let me know. On a more stupid note......'Green Street 2'....is that a joke?

LA* Promo

Brighton's local kraze Ed Hubert is currently in the process of putting together his first full length skate video. When he's not rolling around in mud he's out filming...Previous videos (including this one) have been featured on a number of websites including MPORA. Subscribe to his youtube account for updates and latest brighton footage aswell as visiting www.levelarmy.com.

Shy fx & polish power (hur hur)

Some well chopped footage..

Shy FX & T Power - On the run

Viennese Actionism

Probably my most bizarre post to date..

The term 'Viennese Actionism' describes a short and violent movement in 20th century art that which goes beyond the efforts during the 1960s to develop "action art" (Fluxus, Happening, Performance, Body Art, etc.). Its main participants were Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. The work of the Viennese Actionists is probably best remembered for the wilful transgressiveness of its naked bodies, destructiveness and violence. Often, brief jail terms were served by participants for violations of decency laws, and their works were targets of moral outrage.

Alot of their work was experimental film and moving imagery. This is what I've found to be the most bizarre and generally fucked up. Alot of the work was banned and what is left to be viewed is only around because of strong links with actionists that still work today. They're definitely videos you don't wanna watch more than once, if at all for that matter. Anyway I've posted 1 of the not so vile ones (would you believe) but it is still definitely for the 'not so weak stomachs' to watch. Alot of the others on the internet are pretty vulgar and homo, so steer clear of them when you find em, (unless your into that shit). My main reason for posting them is I love this type of film, how it almost looks super 8mm, but with alot more jump cut etc, which you rarely come across. I wont go into too much detail as the majority won't want to know. have fun!

Otmar Bauer - "Vomit action"
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Otmar Bauer - Acid Vomit.

HUNGER (2008)

Understanding wise, this film is pretty straight forward. It tells the portrayal of life during the 1981 IRA hunger strike. It contains very little dialogue, and is really grey throughout. Fuck knows how the main actor managed to get as thin as he is for the making of this film. It also gave me an insight to the term 'blanket' 'no wash'. Which is exactly what the prisoners during 'the trouble years' did. Smothering their cell walls in their own shit, then getting beaten the fuck out of to go and do it all again. Steve Mcqueens hit the nail on the head with this 1, it's a real epic bit of cinema.