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Gummo (1997) and Release the Flying Monkeys (2011)
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Gummo (1997)
‘A few years ago a Tornado hit this place. Oliver found a leg on his roof. I saw a girl fly through the sky, and I looked up her skirt’
In this elliptical ensemble piece, which marks the directorial debut of indie bad boy Harmony Korine, the teens of tornado-scarred Xenia, OH, kill cats, tape their boobies, arm-wrestle, bathe, cross-dress, huff glue, avoid perverts, pay to have sex with retarded girls, lift makeshift dumbbells to the strains of Madonna's "Like a Prayer," fight, cuss, shave their eyebrows, undergo cancer treatment, euthanize senior citizens, and pee on passing cars. A hallucinatory barrage of images and scenarios with little in the way of traditional plot, Gummo has been variously described as a surrealist joke, a visual poem, and a worm's-eye view of white-trash suffering.
Genre: Drama, Art House & International, Special Interest
Running time: 1 hr. 28 min.
Directed By: Harmony Korine
Written By: Harmony Korine
Stars: Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell and Lara Tosh
Release the Flying Monkeys (2011)
A Film London developed and Roundtable Films/Seaweed Films produced short film in 2010. Set in East London, it’s made by the multi award-winning (KIDS MIGHT FLY 2009) team.
Two fanatical Eastern European girls come to the fashionable East London to prepare for Jesus' return, by performing a 'homemade' exorcism on a tortoise that listens to death metal.
A completely original idea, this film is a parody about modern London lives and about the chemical reaction between different cultures and ethnicities in London – exciting, funny, and a vision of the future.
Awards
- BFI London Film Festival UK 2010
- Leeds International Film Festival UK 2010 (Best of British Short nomination)
- London Short Film Festival UK 2011
- International Film Festival Breda, Netherlands 2011
- East End Film Festival UK 2011
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2011 ( International Competition)
Written and directed by Alex Taylor
Running Time: 9m 26secs
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