ANTI-CLIMAX Production: Mexico, 1969 Director: Gelsen Gas Category: Counter-Culture Gas was a painter, poet, theatre director, sculptor and inventor who directed this one film only, a succession of surrealistic visual enigmas inflamed by a constant undertow of sexual and political agitation involving public transport, an industrial factory whose machines spew Continue Reading
NUOVA GUINEA: L’ISOLA DEI CANNIBALI
NUOVA GUINEA: L’ISOLA DEI CANNIBALI (“New Guinea: Island Of The Cannibals”) Production: Italy/Japan, 1974 Director: Ide Akira Japanese title: Zankoku Hitokui Tairiku (“Continent Of Cannibals And Cruelty”) Category: Mondo/Cannibal Notorious mondo film about the brutal man-eating tribes of New Guinea, featuring a cavalcade of grotesque, often stomach-turning sequences: a woman who Continue Reading