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Eastern Embargo

The New God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_2-FMgPHf0

Directed by Tsuchiya Yutaka, the film follows the daily life of Amemiya Karin, vocalist of the nationalist punk band The Revolutionary Truth, and focuses primarily on the reasons behind her having gotten involved in the far-right. Fun little doc!

l.b.

Quote from: Eastern Embargo on June 17, 2019, 01:29:48 AM
The New God

this is good, thanks. that band sure is something! they set up a drum kit on stage but no real drummer??

The Smell of Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Flrs66lH0&t=488s
tracing development of the radical armed jihadi movements from afghanistan and chechnya, pre-9/11 up thru a few years into US afghan war

The First Chechen War (Первая чеченская.  На войне, как на войне.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6y4sxoJ2A0
russian soldier narrates and reflects on camcorder footage he shot in '96 near the end of first chechen war

Frataxin

Sex, Lies, and Sex Offenders

https://youtu.be/0sEqWlJbEX4

Straight to the point, no fluff or filler here. Not much more to be said, lengthy interviews with several different types of sex offenders. It's a two part documentary, I've linked the first part up there, the second part is on that channel.

tiny_tove

Quote from: EXU on May 15, 2019, 03:06:55 AM
The Devil and Father Amorth - Kind of ok doc by William Friedkin, I liked the beggining where they talk about The Exorcista and then comes a kinda boring real exorcism session and it ends with a lot of people going "oh, that's cool" about it and then things are left hanging by the end, unsatisfying in all fronts IMO.

had high expectations, It starts well then turn lame and I can only feel pity for that suffering lady.
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EXU

Art of Darkness - A documentary about Bryan Lewis Saunders that may be most known for his series of self portraits while using diferent kinds of drugs or by his ties with the experimental music scene as a performer and collaborator. In fact since "1995 artist Bryan Lewis Saunders decided to do a self portrait every day for the rest of his life." and he has a lot of interesting views on art, it is a very nice doc and could serve as a template of how to do a simple doc about a lesser known artist (like noise, PE, industrial, etc) without too much but entertaining none the less. It helps if the artist has interesting and intelligent things to say too instead of just trying to justify/make no big deal his own "provocative gimmicks" or something. This and the Incaps short doc show some different ways to approach wonderful results for people interested in the subject.
CON: Could have more time focused on his audiovisual exploitings that are as interesting as his self portraits (if not more on a personal level).
The documentary was uploaded by the creators and can be seen in full here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld9tr2Tjyo0

Frataxin

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Quote from: theworldisawarfilm on August 20, 2018, 03:09:56 AM
Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKbnWW-4K-A

Classic, and highly recommended. One of the interviews in there is where Rectal Hygienics sourced the sample for the last track on "Even The Flies Won't Touch You."

Thanks for posting that Smell Of Paradise BBC documentary, really enjoyed it. Also enjoyed the Cannibal Corpse one, although I've always been a fan.



Thrash Altenessen (English Subtitles)

German documentary from the 80s about thrash metal band Kreator. Kind of dry in parts, but overall worth a watch. It examines the sociopolitical climate of Germany in the late 70s and 80s, to give some context to Kreator's sound and lyrics. The live footage is good too, if you like Kreator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX-BhBdPCNo

EXU

Quote from: Frataxin on July 15, 2019, 08:00:25 PM
Thrash Altenessen (English Subtitles)

Nice, will check out. It made me remember of one that I don't think I talked about:

SODOM - LORDS OF DEPRAVITY - 3 hour doc about the band. Good if not great, let's say it's not as good as the Cannibal Corpse one but it is still enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQm4rwpOAI

20 YEARS OBSCENE EXTREME FESTIVAL ANNIVERSARY - Calling it a documentary is very misleading, it is just a report from the 20th OE and quite a shallow one with random interviews of people in the audience and bands. It does give you some of the Festival vibe and the people are usually funny and nice but the lack of focus and more depth makes it a little lackluster... You see people talking about Napalm Death and Gutalax for example, but then the bands interviewed are Brainwash (ITA) and Asphyx. I mean, they are ok and cool interviews but it makes no sense, there's not much said about the origins of the festival itself and so on. But it's cool to watch if you just take it as less than a documentary, some very funny moments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j42syfSnsTo

MURAL - JACKSON POLLOCK - A short (40 minutes) doc about the painting of "Mural" and it's restoration. Half of it is interesting and half quite "meh", not essential and has the usual "art world" affectations.

THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL - A very well made doc about Henry Darger (from wikipedia: "He has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, along with several hundred drawings and watercolor paintings illustrating the story").
I was really interested in the subject, the director Jessica Yu handles it very nicely and there are tons of info and visuals of his art so I can't really explain why it felt to me as the more it progressed the less I was interested in it all. Maybe explaining too much and giving too much context expoiled the "magic" for me, that "air of mistery" that perhaps gives a lot of wheight to outsider art goes away when you can join the pieces and see how much he was influenced by this or that. But that may be a personal problem for me, I do recommend this documentary to all those interested in outsider/non conventional/weird art (and artists). I know some people will have a kick out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRlvDKcDvsI


TURNING THE ART WORLD INSIDE OUT - This doc actually lead me to watch the one about Hnery Darger ("hosted by Alan Yentob, published by BBC broadcasted as part of BBC Imagine series in 2013"). It shows many different artists and the only problem is that I wanted to know more about some of them... But then again, I got more of Henry Darger and it actually didn't worked that much for me so I must be careful with what I wish for.
The darger one is better made and all but I recommend this one higher personally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98RUUhVgLR0

Oh, just saw this one is on youtube: Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown. I saw it last year on a Lovecraft inspired movies DVD box and it is very cool ("LOVECRAFT: FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN is a chronicle of the life, work and mind that created these weird tales as told by many of today's luminaries of dark fantasy including John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Stuart Gordon , Caitlin Kiernan, and Peter Straub").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9VCf5einY

Frataxin

Quote from: EXU on July 15, 2019, 09:20:35 PM
SODOM - LORDS OF DEPRAVITY

Been meaning to check this one out.

EYEHATEGOD "Peace Through Addiction" Short Documentary 1993

Very short piece only totaling 11:28, but it's amusing. Much better than the Slow Southern Steel documentary on YouTube about southern sludge metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobYYKSj9wo

EXU

Quote from: Frataxin on July 16, 2019, 04:13:06 AM
Quote from: EXU on July 15, 2019, 09:20:35 PM
SODOM - LORDS OF DEPRAVITY

Been meaning to check this one out.

It's enjoyable if you enjoy the band and esp. if you are a music nerd I must add.

That EYEHATEGOD is so good that it is criminal that the band doesn't have something lenghtier (to my knowledge) about them.
SSS is cool if you block the douchiness every now and then, still has some people I admire in it to make up for the worst parts so I can't be much objective about it.

FRANCIS BACON: A BRUSH WITH VOLENCE - This one is great, lots of interesting information about a very interesting (and troubled) artist and his wonderful art. A delightful dark ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgrO5za0lSY

BBC JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT - A more colourful ride, tho a quick one that ended in sudden death nonetheless, but most of the 1 hour and a half of this documentary echoes the art/life and times of Basquiat pretty well IMO, I didn't knew much about him to be honest and wasn't planning on watching but it started and I just went all the way with it, gotta watch the longer Warhol doc too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omqwxClsXKc

Andrew McIntosh

Not sure if this has already been posted and I've forgotten, but anyway - "The New God" is an interesting and rather personal little documentary following two members of the Japanese punk (don't know if that's how they would characterise it but they sound pretty punk to me, especially the ridiculous vocals) band The Revolutionary Truth, a didactic-as-fuck Japanese nationalist project. The people featured come across as very likeable, albeit just young and confused, and, as is usual with political extremists, much closer to pessimist than they would dare admit (at least as my own biases interpret things).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_2-FMgPHf0
Shikata ga nai.

Frataxin

Yeah, it's a shame that there isn't something more in depth about EHG to my knowledge. It is really good, even though it's very short. Can't get past the bullshit in SSS, gave it a second try.

Nailing The Nail Bomber

Pretty decent documentary about the criminal investigation surrounding the London nailbomber David Copeland.

https://youtu.be/2K9WLAvI2to

Andrew McIntosh

Shikata ga nai.

theworldisawarfilm

Quote from: Frataxin on July 16, 2019, 04:13:06 AM

EYEHATEGOD "Peace Through Addiction" Short Documentary 1993

Very short piece only totaling 11:28, but it's amusing. Much better than the Slow Southern Steel documentary on YouTube about southern sludge metal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobYYKSj9wo

Fantastic!

holy ghost

Watching XTC "This Is Pop" doc - fantastic stuff. I'm a recent convert to this band and really loving this. Very much a typical "rockumentary" about a totally non-typical band. Fantastic.

Duncan

Quote from: holy ghost on July 25, 2019, 02:40:36 AM
Watching XTC "This Is Pop" doc - fantastic stuff. I'm a recent convert to this band and really loving this. Very much a typical "rockumentary" about a totally non-typical band. Fantastic.

Great watch, especially if you're a fan. Had some very pointless contributions from one or two interviewees not in the band but is mostly packed full of interesting stuff. Really enjoy how it charts their progress from a scrappy, choppy guitar group to a huge, overblown pop music factory. Even today they're just hugely under appreciated in terms of songwriting and the strength of all those albums. I think this was from quitting live shows in part but also because they are inescapably over the top in their execution. Love them.