CINE-REBIS – The London Underground Film Festival
12 PM - SHORT FILMS: MEDITATIONS
Programme run time: 95 mins
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Three medium length experimental films from this year's submissions.
Please note: the films in this event contain strobe effects and flashing images.
TRAUM Dir: Heinrich von Kleist | UK, 2013 | 17mins
Traum is a high-intensity hallucinogenic mash-up of YouTube found-footage, underpinned by a pulsing electronic drone. The film aims for maximum apocalyptic intensity in sound and vision. Contemporary existence is portrayed as a chaotic maelstrom of beauty and horror from which there is no escape.
TEMPESTARII Dir: Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert | Luxembourg/Iceland, 2013 |38mins
Dawn spreads its luminous rays across the coast of Iceland, to reveal a sorcerer standing between wine-dark sea and mountainous black rock. He is tempestarii, a figure of medieval lore, undertaking a primitive rite manifested to conjure a storm. The tides of the deep ocean breathe heavily rising and falling across the cinema screen with amplifying power, as the weather-maker beats a mysterious sack against the monolithic cliffs with powerful repetition. As a magical tool, this sack contains forceful winds pulled from each corner of world. As an analogy, it is aligned with the revolutionary transformations of nature by water, air, solar radiation, and geological shifts and filled with the vast potential of man’s will in alliance with Nature. As an omen, the tempestarii signals profound change on both physical and metaphysical realms.
THE REALIST Dir: Scott Stark | USA, 2013 | 40mins
The Realist is an experimental and highly abstracted melodrama, a "doomed love story" storyboarded with flickering still photographs, peopled with department store mannequins, and located in the visually heightened universe of clothing displays, fashion islands and storefront windows.
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2 PM - BELLY OF THE TANTRA
Dir: Pankaj Purohit | India/Nepal, 2012 | 70 mins
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Documentary exploring an ancient and eccentric sect of Hinduism, the Aghori, whose sacred rituals include the eating of human flesh. The film delves into the radical beliefs and extreme rituals of Tantra that religion can incite. Belly of the Tantra challenges our notions of faith and the limits to which one can go.
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3.30 PM - ANIMATED SHORT FILMS
Programme run time: 70 mins
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A selection of animated shorts from this year's submissions.
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5 PM - A BODY WITHOUT ORGANS
Dir: Stephen Graves | USA, 2012 | 82 mins
Screening curated by Jack Sargeant
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A Body Without Organs was shot intimately with my father and mother over a one and a half year period at their home in Florida. This film is a portrait of their lives in the present, punctured by frequent incursions into various pasts, real and imagined. My father has no colon. He is narcoleptic. His friends are all ghosts. His life is dreamt. In the house there is my mother. There are the cats. And then there is a body without organs. (SG)
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6.30 PM - RITUAL: A PSYCHOMAGIC STORY
Dir: Giulia Brazzale & Luca Immesi | Italy, 2012 | 100 mins
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The fragile Lia and the sadist Viktor have a very strong and passionate relationship but when she gets pregnant and he forces her to interrupt the pregnancy, their relationship breaks apart and Lia falls into a deep depression. After an attempted suicide she decides to leave Viktor and, in the last desperate effort to cure herself, she goes to visit her old aunt Agata in her creepy 18th century villa in Mason, a small village of the Veneto countryside in Italy. Features Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose therapeutic practice of Psychomagic inspired the film.
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8.30 PM - THE DEMON'S ROOK
Dir: James Sizemore | USA, 2013 | 104 mins
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A high energy gorefest in the spirit of the horror classics that's been described as “Return of the Living Dead by way of Jodorowsky”. A film destined for cult status!
Young Roscoe finds a portal to another world where he is taught magic by an elder demon known as Dimwos. The demon raises the boy into manhood, revealing to him many things... except for one dark secret. When Roscoe discovers the secret withheld from him all these years, his anger inadvertently unleashes three malevolent demons. Roscoe flees the demons' wrath by escaping through the portal, drawing the demons to discover our world for themselves. Once they pass through, a nightmarish foray of monsters is unleashed. One demon possesses the minds of all whom she crosses, another transforms a man into a murderous beast, and the other summons an army of the dead to do his bidding.
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