Pirate Cinema 5

Feb. 1, 2009 - Feb. 2, 2009

 

    Twentieth Century Toxicity
   Sunday, February 1
      7 pm - 10 pm
     CAMP rooftop.

7: 00 pm
Safe
Todd Haynes
USA 1995 1 h 59 m
http://0xdb.org/0114323

9: 00 pm
The River
Tsai Ming-Liang
Taiwan 1997 1 h 55 m
http://0xdb.org/0119263


Take-Aways

Poison
Todd Haynes
USA 1991. 1h 25m

The Hole
Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan, France 1998.  1h 35m



Two films about the interior and exterior of affliction. The hero gets it from playing dead in a river, the heroine from being "allergic to the 20th century".

Keywords: hermeticism, allergy, AIDS metaphor, bodies, bent neck, leaking water in father's room, icy detachment, nosebleed,  pine-scented, steam, Mcdonalds, black instead of teal, being held by the pillion-rider, slowly revealed that this is a family, could be a gay film.

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