DIRECTOR JAI LOVE IN ATTENDANCE WITH POST SCREENING Q&A
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
SAT17 6.00pm
CINEMA 3 Director Jai Love Year 2016 Country AUSTRALIA Time 75 mins
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DEAD HANDS DIG DEEP Back in the ‘90s when handwringing mothers the world over were writing op-eds about how Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor were making music that would lead to the end of the world as we knew it, Edwin Borsheim was quietly building a reputation as the most depraved frontman in rock. Borsheim of the Southern Californian metal band Kettle Cadaver was once infamous for his combination of talent, bizarre stage antics and brutal selfmutilation. A cross between Charles Manson and GG Allin, the masochistic Borsheim would repulse fans with his flagrant acts of debauchery: stapling his mouth shut during performances, nailing his balls to a board and performing with it dangling on stage — and once even fornicating with a coyote carcass in front of a
live audience. Now, years after the band’s demise, Borsheim has fallen into complete seclusion on his acre of land, and become a captive of the many of the horrible things he has created. In his beautifully rendered documentary, 19-year-old Sydney-based wunderkind Jai Love not only interrogates those closest to Borsheim to dissect his mental complexes, but also confronts Borsheim directly as he spirals further into a void of drug abuse and self-destruction, forcing him to reflect on his own troubled past.
The truth is [DEAD HANDS DIG DEEP] would be deeply unsettling if it were a horror film. As a documentary, it is terrifying. J.B. SPINS