A young man journeys through a desert, where he is kidnapped by a sadistic stranger clad in a pig mask. The stranger proceeds to brutally torture the young man, who then finds himself escaping into his imagination, with fantasy and reality intersecting.
USA
USA
Guinea Pig × Meshes of the Afternoon
A nice slice of experimental extremity.
This avant-garde short film can be found on YouTube.
The first time I watched this was well over a decade ago (omg) on my old laptop…but I can’t believe how much more I appreciated it now…
lots of hauntingly entrancing imagery such as specimen jars, gauze covered victims, dick mutilation, medical tools, gimp masks, and blood play.
I also loved the book page collages, and the score that made me feel like aliens were trying to contact me.
RIP Rozz 🖤🥀
lost in the darkness, lost in today
PS- i watched this on my crt that i decorated for xmas, look how festive it was!!! (thx to my bf for renting it to me!)
&
i uploaded a bunch of cool backdrops for you guys to use if you log this :)
And now, listen. And now, repeat.
I couldn't decide if "What if Kenneth Anger made Saw?" or "What if Kenneth Anger made Begotten?" fit better, so good news, you get to see both. Something I more respect for how scuzzy and gross it is than something I can say I actually liked. That being said, for being clearly very low budget "torture porn", it's intriguing. Just enough information to feel like you have an understanding of the perpetrator, yet enough ambiguity that you start thinking things on your own. Though there are other shorts like it I've enjoyed more, it hitting that sweet spot makes it worthwhile to its certain audience. I find it funny but enlightening that when I…
wet specimens, mutilation, blood, gimp masks, anatomy, body piercings. a psychosis inducing bdsm trip. it checks out that the man who wrote figurative theatre also created this.
Surprised by how evocative and unsettling this was, like more of a phantom transmission set to stun than a piece of transgressive art too flammable to touch. Rozz Williams from Christian Death and Nico B and 1 very brave actor named James Hollan drove out to the desert to make 20 minutes of pure nightmare fuel.
Channelling Kenneth Anger's cosmic hypnosis techniques and filled to the brim with leather, indecipherable diagrams, and nazi iconography, there's an angsty symmetry to this that draws you into its morbid grasp. The grip tightens as unsimulated torture sprays across the screen, all ambiguous syringes and pierced flesh, but the dom here feels ethereal and the sub is an elusive cypher. Symbolism turns to text,…
Genuinely impressive torture effects with homoerotic BDSM undertones, topped off with intense noise music. Doesn't overstay its welcome thanks to the straight-forward story and minimal use of dialogue, but as an audiovisual experience, it's mesmerizing and potentially anxiety-inducing.
SINEMA #3
Crimes: Torture, Forced Piercings, Genital Manipulation, Bloodletting, Needles
I’ve been seeking this one out for awhile and finally found it in the back allies of the web. It’s metal as fuck. Worth a watch if you’re into experimental stuff.
Just a couple of edgelords having some fun in monochrome (OST feat. [ominous whooshing] & other various industrial soundscapes)
Jokes aside, reading about Rozz Williams' death, I feel like that poster is super macabre, maybe a little distasteful even.
The kind of short lived art nightmare that successfully induces many feelings in such a small amount of time. Lots of textual signifiers, both physical, literary, and cliche. Don’t get me wrong, I love the noise soundtrack. But why does Nazi stuff always manage to crop up in unwanted places? I assume it falls very much in line with excising one’s demons. Almost as much as our queer impulses?
It asks what the difference is between the need to hurt & the want of pain. Answers it by whispering; whoever is behind the mask.
The tradition of sadomasochistic, fascism-flirting homoerotic art that Pig belongs to, especially when made by a certain generation of medium-crossing artists (often emerging from the experimental music world), has always been something I’ve found a bit more corny then anything else*, and that’s undeniably the case with a lot going on here. Thankfully, Pig also functions pretty phenomenally as a sun-smeared Californian surrealist piece more in the vein of Meshes of the Afternoon than anything else, all grainy 16mm and obscure symbols and repeated snatches of footage and careful soundtrack editing used to deeply potent cumulative effect. The collage books here, which I understand to be Williams’ work, are largely absolutely gorgeous.
*I like it more when Anger, an artist…
What's that moving in the basement?
What's that moving in the attic?
Who's that lying on the altar?
Who's that lying in the streets?
Really loved this.
Experimental surrealist horror with a very underground artistry that reminded me fondly of Richard Kern and his collaborations with Nick Zedd and Lydia Lunch.
The symbolism is simple and dreamy, the atmosphere is brooding and unnerving and the dedication with the piercing and the carving is insane and bold as hell while maintaining a nightmarish eroticism.
So fucking good.
It would've been great to see Rozz Williams exploring art film a lot more, though that sadly isn't the case given his passing in the same year, but this really would've been an interesting direction.
Part of hoop-tober
Pig is the last (and to my understanding, only…) film Rozz Williams made before committing suicide. It had yet to be edited and he was only midway through completing the score for the film when he decided to hang himself.
Rozz is perhaps better known as a painter and the leader of an early goth/metal band called Christian Death. His entire artistic career was defined by a consuming preoccupation with death, and in addition to writing/scoring/co-directing this; he also plays the serial killer.
If you’re squeamish about torture, definitely avoid this. For some reason, I forgot just how vivid the sadism in this thing really is. I first watched this film earlier this year on youtube and…
