experimental/stop-motion, slow cinema, psychotronic trash, interesting failures, obscure novelties
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The Second Journey (To Uluru) 1981
A revitalizing study of a much-photographed tourist attraction, bringing out the dominating awe that captured aboriginal imaginations and moved them to ritual art. In place of postcard scenery there are alien closeups of the rock’s surface, resembling a heap of bloody meat oozing from crusted sores, or petroglyphs obscured by moss; one immediately understands that this isolated rock is its own cultural and ecological microcosm. The Cantrills are also unflinchingly honest about their filmmaking practice: when the lab underdeveloped their film,…
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Skinamarink 2022
I don’t believe that we are living through the end of history, as some do, but I have to admit that it’s rare to encounter a work whose visual presentation is not a recombination of older styles but something purely contemporary, a singular vision that could not have existed prior to its moment of creation. Even the experimental scene is still, to this day, at least 40% Brakhagean (fine by me — canons and traditions aren’t always invalid). Now be…
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The Jar 1984
I don't have anything against 'bad movie' riffing. Love it, actually. As a kid my parents would wake up on Saturday mornings to find me glued to the TV, cackling at Crow and Tom Servo (MST3K was still on the Sci-Fi channel then). When I discovered RLM's Best of the Worst series it felt like a continuation of that same experience, though I quickly learned to discard their serious film opinions. After dozens of episodes I realized that what I…
