Experiments In Terror (experimental Shorts) (DVDrip)

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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.

Reviews:

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

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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.

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* "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

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"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

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* "Ursula" - Lloyd M. Williams (1961)
Gold Medallion, Cannes Film Festival, 1961. Best Scripted Film, Best
Special Effects for Sustained Horror

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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.

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* "Dawn of An Evil Millennium" - Damon Packard (1988)

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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

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* "Journey Into The Unknown" - Kerry Laitala (2002)
http://www.othercinema.com/klaitala/coming.html

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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

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* "The Virgin Sacrifice" - J.X. Williams (1974)

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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.

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DropDeadFred · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:41 pm **Post subject:**

click click and click

I love short films. Thanks d0c. :beerchug:

John_Doe · **Posted:** Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:11 am **Post subject:**

me too! Tnx. =)

Hastur · **Posted:** Fri Nov 26, 2004 1:29 pm **Post subject:**

Nice Nice.
Me likeylikey :-)

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:43 pm **Post subject:**

Updated: Added new shorts, since this thread was taken from fh.org (restored the quote too)

trep · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:51 am **Post subject:**

A very amusing story about the director of "The Virgin Sacrifice" (and renowned writer of vintage gay pulp fiction) J.X. Williams:

http://www.othercinema.com/otherzine/ot ... iams1.html

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If J.X. Williams is one of the best kept secrets of American cinema, it's because he wants it that way. Obsessively secretive and skillfully elusive, he has kept out of the public eye for almost twenty years (the last known photograph of him was taken in 1985) and, not surprisingly, he has not done an interview for decades. Despite his impressive filmography and some recent attention in Europe, J.X. Williams has managed to remain fairly obscure. A Google search only returns a couple of references. Nexus does not reveal much either. Most of what I have found on Mr. Williams has come from old newspapers and from the old man himself.

It would be impossible to tell how this interview came to be without giving a bit of background on myself. As a film scholar and curator, I often cruise the 16mm film section of eBay in search of interesting works for my collection. I especially like stag, exploitation, and other trash cinema. While I was going through the listings a few years ago, I noticed an exceptional number of bids had been made for a film called "Psych-Burn".

The winning bid was several thousand dollars... for a three minute film! Though I had no intention (or money) to buy the film, I could not resist sending an e-mail inquiry to the seller ("Sell-u-Lloyd") to find out what all the hype was about. He wrote back:

Psych-Burn is a J.X. Williams mint original. The print was struck in the late sixties with perfect no-fade color (AGFA stock). The film is almost splice free and has very little wear. Print is fully complete on a 100 ft. Reel

Lloyd

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( I guess he worked with that Karen Eliot chick in some movies...)

vtwin0001 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:19 am **Post subject:**

...is there a way we could get more from JX Williams down here on emule?

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