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Garth Goes Hitch Hiking
Dir: Greg Pakis Length 69 mins
Greg Pakis/Garth Petridis: where does one end and the other begin? MUFF hit The Garth Method, soon to be released on Accent Underground DVD, is a classic gem from a few years back. Garth, an out of work actor desperate for a job, abducts people to act in his indy movie King of Comedy style. To promote the film, Greg Pakis (the director) would stand around in a T-shirt with his own face on it and hand out cheap fliers that looked crappy. I remember getting the flier before seeing the film and, to be honest, the publicity turned me off rather than on to the film. But after seeing the film, this act of Garth’s is an in-joke that you have to see the film to get. It’s a deliberately lo-fi Garthean strategy of promotion that is almost too clever for its own good. Due to Garth’s success, Greg Pakis has made a sequel, Garth Goes Hitchhiking, about Garth going from Melbourne to Cairns by thumbing it. What results is a great road movie/doco about Australians on the road with many candid confessions and great moments plus crazy footage of Greg/Garth ruffing it in the wild, in the rain and sleeping in the grounds of schools. We are proud to present this mini feature on closing night, alongside Llik Your Idols.
Llik Your Idols The Cinema Of Transgression (2007) France
Director: Angelique Bosio
Producer: Alexandre Perrier
Energi 69 minutes
The cinema of transgression burst out of New York in the 80s like a shot glass of pus that had just been smashed by a pair of king-size and steel capped RM Williams. Then it slowly began to seep its way into an eager international filmhead audience care of the hipster film mag with attitude once owned by Latrry Flynt, Film Threat. It took an Englishman to write the book (Jack Sargeant — Deathtripping, 1995) and now a French woman to make the film. Bosio has crafted a great work here by taking the most energetic images from over 30 films that loosely form the cinema of transgression and presenting them in frenetic explosions throughout. Their collectively energy positively pulsates with this type of taster presentation that’s surely going to lead any audience back to the original works. Besides excerpts from some of the best known titles such as SUBMIT TO ME NOW, FINGERED, WHERE EVIL DWELLS THRUST IN ME & THE WILD WORLD OF LYDIA LUNCH you also get to see exciting bits from lesser known titles like THE SEWING CIRCLE, MOMMY MOMMY WHERE’S MY BRAIN, SHITHAUS and even more recent efforts by nominal face of transgression Nick Zedd and his LORD OF THE COCKRINGS (2002). Of the talking heads, and it’s a bonus that we don’t see Henry Rollins, the art world is well represented and the music biz connections that bore influence on this loosely collective movement are also highlighted. Interviewees, who on the whole remain articulate and enlightening (one guy summarizes the whole thrust of the cinema of transgression as capturing people doing things on camera that they’ll never do again) include Joe Coleman, Thurston Moore, Jack Sargeant, Bruce Labruce, Richard Hell, Richard Kern, Russell Simmins and many more. Subjects broached include the social conditions surrounding the emergence of the cinema of transgression, No Wave and Invisible Cinema. LLIK to see this film.
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- Michael Helms
Llik Your Idols Length 60 mins
Closing Night: 7pm Sunday Sept 30 LOOP
