Boston Underground Film Festival’s 2022 Dunwich Horrors entries are a wide variety of delightfully oddball, genuinely unsettling collections.
Tag: Experimental
At the age of eighty-two, filmmaker Geraldo Sarno shows that he is still a young artist in the experimental sense. His newest work, Sertania (Sertânia) is a delight for any lover of cinema.…
The first entry in Lars von Trier’s Depression Trilogy “Antichrist” is an increasingly disturbing but consistently gripping experimental horror that’s unnerving, unsettling & unforgiving in its depiction of grief, pain & despair but…
More than surveillance footage documentary, Dragonfly Eyes is the story an aloof camera that incessantly captures the chaos, death, violence, molestation, accidents, calamities, and by doing so questions the nature of reality. Camera is the glass wall that filmmaker cannot penetrate. Like a ghost, he observes humanity from distance, but can never become a part of it. In his desire to create fiction out of fragments of reality, Xu Bing himself transcends humanness and becomes the camera that observes the observer.
“The film exposes how afraid we are to even acknowledge questions we have always had, rooted in the deepest recesses of our minds, and makes us confront them.” I watched ‘Kaul’ at…
Kaul will be celebrated as an unconventional film done right. It is a milestone film in Indian cinema which will have a cult status in the near future.