Ben Pahl Robinson

Ben Pahl Robinson

Favorite films

  • Stalker
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Eraserhead
  • Naked Lunch

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  • Little Black Submarines

    ★★★★★

  • Grieve

    ★★★★★

  • Over the Next Horizon

    ★★★★★

  • A Knot in the Web

    ★★★★★

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  • Little Black Submarines

    Little Black Submarines

    ★★★★★

    If you're into smart and moving crime dramas like The Sopranos or Breaking Bad, Little Black Submarines is for you. If you're put off by it not being on a major network or big movie streamer, don't be. YouTube doesn't deserve this film.

    Though part of the Chlorine mythos, you don't need to know what that is to watch it, but staying true to that mythos, this is more than just a crime film; it's a film about real people…

  • Grieve

    Grieve

    ★★★★★

    GRIEVE is a powerful film that carries us along with its protagonist from the dull ache of grief in an empty house, to the delirious bliss of self-destruction in the death-greedy woods.

    Fine cinematography and poetic editing, combined with a simple narrative that tumbles naturally down into delirious horrors evocative of folklore and nightmare, GRIEVE is a film to be experienced, not just seen.

    As long as films like this are still made, cinema lives on.

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  • Over the Next Horizon

    Over the Next Horizon

    ★★★★★

    There is an alluring freedom in post-apocalyptic stories. We relish the escapism of burning down a wasteland road in a patchwork-armoured car chased by marauding mutants. Our only responsibility is to survive, the old world is gone, we build a new one now.

    In Alex Clegg's Over the Next Horizon there is no escape from the world we've lost. We carry the past with us like a heavy rucksack, and we struggle to survive only in the hope of somehow…

  • A Knot in the Web

    A Knot in the Web

    ★★★★★

    A Knot in the Web is a trippy indie feature about a narcoleptic programmer caught in a technodelic plot. A remarkable piece of one-handed filmmaking from a unique voice.

    Watch it free on Youtube: youtu.be/11xGc0CUFvA