Month: April 2007

Absolutely engrossed in this from start to finish, this doc from 1996 about a 1993 murder of three second-graders in West Memphis, Arkansas. The suspects, three outcast kids, look like scapegoats because of their Metallica t-shirts and their anti-social behavior. Yet, they never really seem too bothered about their fate, like it’s just one more slight the community have visited upon them. An updated Salem witch trials? The ending leaves with waaaay more questions than answers. 

Cripes, it’s *ten* years since Constance Penley’s Experimental Film class at UCSB. I sat in on it b/c my friend was taking the class and what I saw there blew my mind. I’m still recovering (I may never recover).
So finally Fantoma put these out on DVD, with Anger’s own commentary (needed on symbolically obscure films like “Inauguaration of the Pleasure Dome”). They look beautiful, from the woozy focus and outre sexual fantasies of “Fireworks” to the color explosion of “Pleasure Dome”. I stole a heap of stuff for “nowhereland” and it was cool to go back and see what I had taken (I had forgotten).