Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Antichrist, dir Lars von Trier
Censorship and moral uproar in response to onscreen violence, nudity and sexual
imagery has a long and predictable history. Could there be an argument, however, that we have entered the endgame, now that film director Lars von Trier’s latest offering has been allowed onto our screens, edit-free, by the British Board of Film Classification?
For the first 40 minutes of Antichrist, released in the UK on 24 July, there is very little that is shocking per se. The opening sequence is shot in such an ‘artful’, monochrome aesthetic that the viewer is left wondering whether this perfume advertisement could really be the work of the Dogme 95 director. Bill Viola at his most indulgent, perhaps, but not von Trier. The drama’s catalyst comes when, during a bout of (admittedly pretty-real-looking) sex between a couple played by Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg, a young boy – their unattended son – falls to his death from a first floor window. The unfolding drama of the funeral, the woman’s grief and her partner’s methodical attempts to get her through it, is flipped back into a stylised realism, a swaying camera mirroring the delirium of grief. The controversy lies in the film’s second half, for here – and without giving too much away – the audience is lured into a world of nightmarish horror psychology that manifests itself in graphic vaginal self-mutilation and other instances of explicit, wince-inducing violence, angry sex, erect, blood-spurting cocks and woodland orgies. And it’s all wrapped up in what looks like a terrifying misogyny. It is a film that, despite occasionally risking becoming a pastiche of itself, leaves one shaken.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sunday, July 12, 2009
James Jean a young artist extrodinaire!
Thanks to Adam I discovered a young artist James Jean who works with computer aided designs as well as painting.
http://www.jamesjean.com/
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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