I caught the premier of Maldoror at the Blinding Light!, in Vancouver. The film consisted of about 12 shorts by German and British filmmakers. The visuals were generally abstract, keeping somewhat true to the surrealist imagery presented in Ducasse's novel. Audio was merely a reading of portions of the book. It was very low-budget and yet interesting, but mostly because of the terrifyingly beautiful language of the book. Recently saw a history of Japanese Avant-Garde films (about 10 films in all), also at the Blinding Light!. Any thoughts of Emperor Tomato Ketchup? They only screened about 30 minutes of this. Gianfranco G Marino From: "Darti Bastamai" <deadlypen@hotmail.com> To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: organ [gruesome japanese film] Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:03:41 -0400 Speaking of gruesome films, has anyone seen Maldoror. I remeber seeing an ad for it in Fortean Times. It was supposed to be showing in a few places in europe. Filmmakers got together and made different scenes from the book, putting them all together. I want to see this, but don't know if it has or will see any other releases besides these few cinemas. Any input etc? ______________________________________________________________________ Post your ad for free now! http://personals.yahoo.ca