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| Additional Particular Screenings, Etc. 4 |
// Date: Monday, 25.10.2010
// Time: 20h- 24h
Lange Nacht der Opfer
3 neo-contemporary horror-genre videos will be shown simultaneously in 3 rooms for this occasion. There will also be a reading room, bar, and etceteras.
The Mother of Tears, Dario Argento, 2008, 90min, DVD
Stuck, Stuart Gordon, 2008, 85min, DVD
Halloween lll: Season of the Witch, 1982, 98min, DVD
Of course at Halloweentime victims (if not corpses) abound, and this program will survey them in (at least) 3 different predicaments. In one instance, the victim is the viewer himself (and the viewer of the viewer-onscreen, depending on your assessment of the film) as Halloween lll: Season of the Witch tells the story of an anonymous, pagan, super-intelligent and evil multi-national corporation who manufactures traditional masks for everyone to wear, specifically on Halloween night 1982, when their specially designed corporate TV ad will be broadcast, and at which time the mask's wearer will have their brain zapped to rot (due to special microchips). That is the Silver Shamrock Corporation. Produced at the same time as Videodrome, Halloween lll: Season of the Witch is arguably also part of the same discourse on video, surface, and meta-narrative.
For a Hanekeian meditation on the implicated viewer in the representation of violence and its perpetration- and perhaps even outdoing Funny Games- Stuart Gordon's (Re-Animator) Stuck situates the victim's narrative in everyday circumstances. Based on the true story of Chante Jawan Mallard, a nursing assistant who finds a homeless man struck with her car while driving on ecstasy, Stuck is a controversial mix of viewer complicity, Mena Suvari in cornrows, and incidental scatology...and possibly an indictment of American political life at the din of the George W. Bush misadministration. Link at Chante Jawan's Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
Another problem altogether is Dario Argento's Mother of Tears (2008). Supposedly the narrative of 'Sarah Mandy, an American art restoration student studying in Rome, who unwittingly releases the evil that is Mother Lachrymarum'; what one should know about The Mother of Tears is that Dario Argento's return to film production in 2008 is under the pretense of the completion of a trilogy. Because (as we all know) Mater Suspiriornum and Mater Tenebrarum are both dead (in Suspiria and Inferno respectively), and because Sarah Mandy will find out that her parents were both murdered by Mater Suspiriornum in Freiburg, Mater Lachrymarum, the most beautiful of the three witches, will begin to wreck havok on Rome, and eventually the world. This has come about in the first place because, said student has without authorization, broken the wax seal on a disinterred urn, itself secretly dispatched to English art historian Michael Pierce and which was originally found by modern workmen at a church accidentally excavating an old coffin. Mass hypnosis and hysteria ensues, channeling Nanterre, the banlieues, and Athens. The miners may be out, but not even they can stop the forces.
Halloween lll trailer: www.youtube.com/watch
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