documentaries

[tiny_tove]

I was discussing with a friend regarding Lingchi and the Chinese torture images that so much inspired Bataille.
I think I have to share this with you guys

http://turandot.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Event.php?ID=1&;

[moozz]

I was discussing with a friend regarding Lingchi and the Chinese torture images that so much inspired Bataille.
I think I have to share this with you guys

http://turandot.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Event.php?ID=1&

Took me a while to realise that Lingchi is just different spelling for Leng Tch'e. A different picture of the execution is on the Naked City album cover (http://www.discogs.com/image/R-377985-1260287406.jpeg) and that's why all that looked eerily familiar.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Since we have the NorNoise movie available and the documentary on Finnish Noise is being made now, can anyone point out any other good Noise documentaries? I'd be very surprised if nothing's been made about the early British PE scene, or at least something relating to it.

[Jaakko V.]

I found this quite interesting.


Burma VJ
http://burmavjmovie.com/

Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. Armed with small handycams the Burma VJs stop at nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered as free usage for international media. The whole world has witnessed single event clips made by the VJs, but for the very first time, their individual images have been carefully put together and at once, they tell a much bigger story. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching.

"Joshua", age 27, is one of the young video journalists, who works undercover to counter the propaganda of the military regime. Joshua is suddenly thrown into the role as tactical leader of his group of reporters, when the monks lead a massive but peaceful uprising against the military regime. After decades of oblivion - Burma returns to the world stage, but at the same time foreign TV crews are banned from entering the country, so it is left to Joshua and his crew to document the events and establish a lifeline to the surrounding world. It is their footage that keeps the revolution alive on TV screens all over.

Amidst marching monks, brutal police agents, and shooting military the reporters embark on their dangerous mission, working around the clock to keep the world informed of events inside the closed country. Their compulsive instinct to shoot what they witness, rather than any deliberate heroism, turns their lives into that of freedom fighters.

The regime quickly understands the power of the camera and the reporters are constantly chased by government intelligence agents who look at the "media saboteurs" as the biggest prey they can get.

During the turbulent days of September, Joshua finds himself on an emotional rollercoaster between hope and despair, as he frantically tries to keep track of his reporters in the streets while the great uprising unfolds and comes to its tragic end.

With Joshua as the psychological lens, the Burmese condition is made tangible to a global audience so we can understand it, feel it, and smell it.

[SK]

Charles Manson Superstar

Interesting documentary directed by Nikolas Schreck in 1989. It features a lengthy interview with Charles Manson and rarely mentioned information about him, details which are not presented in any of the dozens of political correct documentaries about Manson. He speaks about his wordview, his views on society, his trials, the severe inequities committed against him and other truths about his case. It's similar to Schreck's book "The Manson File" which is in fact the only pro-Manson book ever released.



Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHdoMyIIPM

[RyanWreck]

Orozco el Embalsamador



Pretty brutal documentary from back in the early 90's-ish era of the Shockumentaries which were so popular then (i.e. Faces of Death). This one, however, is 100% real, no cutaways, no trick shots and is pretty brutal at times (dead pregnant lady gets her baby pulled out of her, faces being peeled back, dead naked chicks with tits hanging out and bloody panties, etc). It is in all Spanish but has subtitles. Instead of writing up a full  review I suggest you watch the full trailer here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eABS_fR1y4

If you're into real death footage than this is a must for your collection.

[Strömkarlen]

It's similar to Schreck's book "The Manson File" which is in fact the only pro-Manson book ever released.

I would say Siege by James Mason is pretty pro-Manson in sentiment.

[ConcreteMascara]

that Orozco el Embalsamador looks pretty interesting.

[SK]

Correct. There is a chapter of Siege which is dedicated to "Universal Order". I just didn't mention it because Siege is not a book entirely written about Manson, there are many other topics mentioned in it. Sure a considerable part of it consists of articles about and inspired by him, but the Manson file is a book specialized in his case.

[kettu]

Orozco el Embalsamador
If you're into real death footage than this is a must for your collection.

nice, thanks. found a place in germany that sells it for 22 euros! not bad but this month is carfixing month and I have to get the noobcat noodered so ill get a friend to steal this for me. I watched the preview and its always great to see a face just peeled of.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

in helsinki this could be found from Pieni Leffakauppa.
I actually have burned dvdr somewhere, which I don't need since I got the original from above mentioned place for... was it 9€ ?

[kettu]

if its that cheap then im getting a copy even if I managed to suck it from the net all by my self.

watched it this morning and what can I say, it was really good. good soundtrack(especially in the beginning) and sound overall. loved the way the camera was just hovering over the outdoorsy scenes without any interuption. the one chick getting stripped for evidence with everybody getting an eyefull.

somebody should give this the same treatment that texas chainsaw massacre got with the  sound lifted straight from the movie exept this would be mostly organs slishsloshing about, sound of skin being cut and distant car engines.

[Pharmakon]

SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist 1997

Pretty ok film. Still would recommend to start w/ Supermasochist book.
Sheree Rose one mean mama. Its rare to have genuine sadist (straight) woman. If I remember right Sheree was in abusive relationship before Bob. it was her time to be the punisher. Have seen this only once at film festival Helsinki late 90s. Have to get dvd.

Eleczema has used Flanagan samples.

Do you remember the whole film? Just watched this the other night on DVD. Amazing documentary. It gets really hard to watch at a point.... not because of him hammering a nail through his dick or any of the other masochistic acts, but more because of how depressing his life is towards the end, and the final scenes of his final moments...

I had a much different take on Sheree though. Bob was really the one pulling all the strings... the one with all the ideas, the one who taught her how to be that way, he told her what to do to him, and how to do it... he was much more in control than she was, even when he was submitted to her. At the end of the movie, you can really see how annoying she is when she whines to Bob about he isn't submitting to her enough anymore, meanwhile her role has been taken over by his disease, which was doling out way more pain than she could have possibly given him, and all she could think to do as he died was try to look cool for the cameras. I think Flanagan should've ended up with that girl with CF who came to visit him, ha.

[XE]

SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist 1997

Pretty ok film. Still would recommend to start w/ Supermasochist book.
Sheree Rose one mean mama. Its rare to have genuine sadist (straight) woman. If I remember right Sheree was in abusive relationship before Bob. it was her time to be the punisher. Have seen this only once at film festival Helsinki late 90s. Have to get dvd.

Eleczema has used Flanagan samples.

Do you remember the whole film? Just watched this the other night on DVD. Amazing documentary. It gets really hard to watch at a point.... not because of him hammering a nail through his dick or any of the other masochistic acts, but more because of how depressing his life is towards the end, and the final scenes of his final moments...

I had a much different take on Sheree though. Bob was really the one pulling all the strings... the one with all the ideas, the one who taught her how to be that way, he told her what to do to him, and how to do it... he was much more in control than she was, even when he was submitted to her. At the end of the movie, you can really see how annoying she is when she whines to Bob about he isn't submitting to her enough anymore, meanwhile her role has been taken over by his disease, which was doling out way more pain than she could have possibly given him, and all she could think to do as he died was try to look cool for the cameras. I think Flanagan should've ended up with that girl with CF who came to visit him, ha.

hah now its official there is not any genuine dominant straight women exists. yeah I am sure you are right! I was little lad when watched the film. in my mind Sheree has allways been the one and only real sadist bad ass mama...

CF visiting girl, was she the one who got nipples pierced? if so yummy!
have to get the dvd.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I guess this has always been the case of "paid dominatrix". While some men use it as supposedly clever argument that female do have some power in sex industry, and dominance over gender, I think big part of the feminist have always argued that the dominatrix is the actual submissive. The "slave" pays. Slave makes requirements. Slave commands her through the wishes in the role. And she pretends to be master but submits the wishes and will of the "slave". I guess, it's the moment what requires the SNUFF "male supremacy" as soundtrack.
I do think there are dominant females, though. But perhaps in slightly different ways than in professional sex industry.