Experiments in Terror **actualizado**
Publicado: Lun 22 Nov, 2004 19:01
Reviews:A small percentage of people experience photosensitive epileptic seizures when exposed to patterns of flashing light. If you’re one of them, stay far away from “Experiments in Terror.” It’s Other Cinema’s attempt to melt your brain.
The DVD is a compilation of short films, each of which is most easily described as experimental. A case of style over substance, many of these shorts lack a coherent narrative. Eerie lighting, fast and slow motion, kaleidoscope effects, disjointed and repeated images and multiple exposures are the norm.
http://www.filmthreat.com/News.asp?Id=1594
http://www.othercinemadvd.com/experiments.html
http://www.monstersatplay.com/review/dvd/e/eit.php
http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/hyde/experiment.asp
http://www.sleazegrinder.com/garb_3-16experiments.htm
* "Outer Space" - Peter Tscherkassky (1999)
Gavin Smith's Films Of The Year, Film Comment
Golden Gate Award - Best Short, San Francisco International Film Festival
Audience Award - Best Film, Cinematexas
http://www.tscherkassky.at/
http://www.tscherkassky.at/content/film ... aceEL.html
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/ ... outer.html
In half-light and fractured, staggering visuals, a young woman enters into a suburban house at night. As the door closes behind her, both the physical space and the surface of the projection begin to splinter, collapse and rupture. Spaces enclose and enfold, the female subject multiples and shatters across the screen, and the film itself screeches and tears as the sprockets and optical soundtrack violently invade the fictional world. Any semblance of a cinematic narrative is overwhelmed and assaulted, leaving it scattered in a thousand shards amid an entirely unique cinematic language.
Outer space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999) (xvid,AC3).avi 
162 MB 00:10:01 (18,019 fr)
XviD 2035 kb/s 704x304 (2.32:1)
ac3 224 kb/s (112/ch, stereo) CBR
* "Tuning The Sleeping Machine" - David Sherman (1996)
Official Selection, 1997 Whitney Biennial; 1996 New York Film
Festival; San Francisco International Film Festival; VIPER (Lucerne, Switzerland)
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/archiv ... arts97.php
http://www.moviemartyr.com/2004/screeningfebruary.htm
http://www.totalmobilehome.com/tuning_canyon.htm
"Tuning the Sleepng Machine recalls our shared experience of late-night television in which lambent images emerge from the screen and turn strange as the percolate through our half-conscious thoughts and reveries. Found footage--scenes of the horific and supernatural recoil--becomes enmeshed in thick visual texture forged by optical printing. There are primal urges at work just below the threshold of recognition: a mesmerist exercises erotic control over an inocent girl, or maybe vise versa. In any event, Sherman manipulates his found objects not to demystify-as is the current rage-but to mine their ineffable mysteries."-Paul Arthur, Film Comment
Tuning the sleeping machine (David Sherman, 1996) (xvid,AC3).avi 210 MB 00:12:54 (23,204 fr)
XviD 2046 kb/s 608x448 (1.36:1)
ac3 224 kb/s (112/ch, stereo) CBR
* "Ursula" - Lloyd M. Williams (1961)
Gold Medallion, Cannes Film Festival, 1961. Best Scripted Film, Best
Special Effects for Sustained Horror
Lloyd M. Williams’ “Ursula,” based on a story by Charles Beaumont (who wrote for “The Twilight Zone”) and filmed in 1961, is a dread-steeped short about child abuse that, with its mist-filled fantasy worlds plays like a warm-up for the unsettling kids’-perspective horror of Lemora or Paperhouse and earned it an award at the ’61 Cannes Film Festival.
Ursula (Lloyd M.Williams, 1961) (xvid,AC3).avi 179 MB 00:11:12 (20,129 fr)
XviD 2046 kb/s 608x464 (1.31:1)
ac3 192 kb/s (96/ch, stereo) CBR
* "Dawn of An Evil Millennium" - Damon Packard (1988)
This slapdash, madcap experimental Super-8 demo reel about a Lovecraftian demon is initially more disgusting, and more fun, than most art films. Most of the kicks are found in watching the telekinetic monster explode, compress, and otherwise assault puny humans. It's rare to see a narrative film use these avant-garde techniques, but I imagine that's as much a budgetary concession as it is a stylistic one. Nonetheless, it's ability to make an intergalactic special effects epic using these techniques, and a twenty minute runtime, is impressive. Somewhere around the middle, though, it stops making much sense at all
Dawn of an evil millennium (Damon Packard, 1988) (xvid,AC3).avi (Para mi que esta pertenece más al género del "ZXZ abismal"...)
273 MB 00:20:23 (36,658 fr)
XviD 1673 kb/s 576x432 (1.33:1)
ac3 192 kb/s (96/ch, stereo) CBR
* "Journey Into The Unknown" - Kerry Laitala (2002)
http://www.othercinema.com/klaitala/coming.html
A noir cinematic tale of cinematic revenge by technicolor China Girls, who use their siren song to lure an unspecting voyeur into the depths of a haunted movie palace
Journey to the unkown (Kerry Lailtala, 2002) (xvid,AC3).avi 82.7 MB 00:05:12 (9,359 fr) 608x448 (1.36:1)
XviD 2022 kb/s
ac3 192 kb/s (96/ch, stereo) CBR
* "The Virgin Sacrifice" - J.X. Williams (1974)
Director J.X. Williams’ describes “The Virgin Sacrifice” as a “cursed production.” After filming, all prints were lost and the negative perished in a lab fire. All that remains is the introduction; a nine minute sample of a vision that will regretfully never be recovered.
A mute named Cindy meets with two girls to inquire about moving into their apartment. Cindy writes a note asking where the roommates work. “Well…uh you may find this kind of strange Cindy, but I work for the devil,” one of them replies. Cindy seems alarmed, but the girls assure her “worshipping the devil, it’s the in thing to do.” To put Cindy’s mind at ease, the girls invite her to their next meeting.
The virgin sacrifice (J.X.Williams,1974) (xvid,AC3).avi 152 MB 00:09:25 (16,919 fr) 608x448 (1.36:1)
XviD 2032 kb/s
ac3 224 kb/s (112/ch, stereo) CBR
