The Evil Surprise
In the form of a playful conspiracy, ten pseudo-educational sequences deconstruct film techniques and medical teleology An unbridled recycling of archival films explodes the stereoypes of mass culture, contaminated by a shapeless and frenzied gangrene. The gap between the promise of science and human frailty.
François Miron
Director
Also Directed by François Miron
Experimental film by François Miron.
Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering, pulsating, colourful mosaics. The many interviews and testimonies are also a portrait of a generation of leading voices in experimental filmmaking.
Landscape film, The Ultraworld (1997) marks a certain break. The artist demonstrates the ability of the film device to transform the perception of a reality. Hence, the filming, the editing and handling of the film cause destruction, disruption of a wild landscape.
The title refers to two eponymous words. The first describes the pathological symptom of abnormal contact between two internal surfaces, such as broken bones.
In this surreal thriller, mysterious blond Marie March takes a journey to the town of Darckeville to scam a priceless set of antiques from an eccentric collector, but also to get away from the clutches of her overbearing older husband. On the freight train to Darckeville, fevered sensual dreams and dark childhood memories crowd her troubled mind - portentous omens of an unresolved past hurrying to catch up with her. Set against a backdrop of fading dreams, broken aspirations, and the crumbling ruins of a decaying town coloured with strange characters, their separate paths collide with explosive results.
Experimental film by François Miron.
A permutation poem by Dream Machine artist Brion Gysin is recited by Monte Cazazza. Each word is linked to an image. Sentences are re-organised in every possible grammatical manner to create new associations.
Awarded Gold Prize at the Onion City Film Festival, Chicago.
A dancer’s routine is fragmented by the filmmaker and his Bolex camera. A tense duel takes place between the catcher of motions and his muse, their movements tracing fleeting moments which create an elegant symbiosis of two lovers united by the cinematograph. Loosely inspired by the poem by the writer and occultist Aleister Crowley.
In an abandoned power plant, a paranoiac electrician dreams he discovers a piece of shapeless flesh in a jar. Armed with plans, he wanders about a world of post-apocalyptic ruins through various scenes charged with symbols.
