SUITCASE OF LOVE AND SHAME DIR. JANE GILLOOLY
ORIGINAL TITLE:SUITCASE OF LOVE AND SHAME COUNTRY:US YEAR:2013 RUNNING TIME:70M. PRODUCTION:SUITCASE OF LOVE AND SHAME, LLC PRODUCER:JANE GILLOOLY WORLD SALES/CONTACT:LOVE AND SHAME LLC, USA
TEATER GROB: FRIDAY 8/11 AT 19:00 HRS. CINEMATEKET: WEDNESDAY 13/11 AT 21:30 HRS. GRAND TEATRET: SUNDAY 17/11 AT 14:20 HRS.
In 1960s America, an American couple recorded their affair on 60 hours of tape. The recordings are of an extremely private and often erotic nature, and are a shockingly candid exposé of the man’s infidelity and the couple’s sexual passions. Almost fifty years later, the tape recordings were found in a suitcase bought on eBay, and have now been turned into a minimalist and captivating film. The intimate recordings and the immediate and simple visual style lead the spectator into the suburban life of 1960s America, and directly into the couple’s bedroom, where love and shame went hand in hand. The soundtrack thereby, and quite
atypically for the film medium, creates the images in our head instead of blowing them up on the screen in front of us, and an unusually close and intimate contact occurs between the film’s two invisible protagonists and ourselves as spectators. As opposed to being an outright ‘voyeur’, one instead becomes a listener, and is inaugurated into an unknown couple’s desires, unconditional love and tough decisions. The director Jane Gilooly has created a unique blend of voices and images, a lustful nostalgic blend of impressionistic documentarism and radio montage.
FOR NO GOOD REASON DIR. CHARLIE PAUL
ORIGINAL TITLE:FOR NO GOOD REASON COUNTRY:UK YEAR:2012 RUNNING TIME:89M. PRODUCTION:ITCH FILM PRODUCER:LUCY PAUL WORLD SALES/ CONTACT:INDEPENDENT FILM SALES, UK
VESTER VOV VOV: THURSDAY 7/11 AT 19:00 HRS. PARK BIO: MONDAY 11/11 AT 21:30 HRS. EMPIRE BIO: FRIDAY 15/11 AT 17:30 HRS.
The hypocrisy of power is the first casualty when the master cartoonist Ralph Steadman swings his brush. Since then, through an auspicious coincidence, he met the Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson in the early 1970s, he has used his biting intelligence to skewer the American dream with his idiosyncratic drawing style. The fact that the crazy images hide a British gentleman is just one of the great surprises in a visually obstreperous portrait film, which is packed with fantastic and utterly insane archive footage and cock-and-bull stories from the turbulent 1970s. Steadman’s close friend Johnny Depp is our guide on this tour, which
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among many other things takes us on a hunt with William S. Burroughs and to Zaire during the legendary ‘The Rumble in the Jungle’ boxing fight. But it is Steadman’s political commitment that reveals the method in the madness. And the fact that he began his artistic career as a photographer by documenting life on the streets among America’s poor underclass is just as plausible as the fact that he later wrote a book about Leonardo da Vinci in first person singular. The best thing, though, is to hear him tell the whole story himself - because he is really good at it.