IMPAKT EVENT: MONDO CANNIBALE, 12 september

Arjon Dunnewind wrote:

> IMPAKT EVENT: MONDO CANNIBALE
> Tuesday 12 September / 19.30 hours
> Impakt @ Filmtheatre 't Hoogt / Utrecht / The Netherlands
>
> In the history of splatter and exploitation movies, cannibal films are
> a
> notorious - and interesting - subgenre. Between 1973 and 1983, famous
> sleaze movie directors like Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Joe
> d'Amato,
> Jess Franco, Sergio Martino and Antonio Margheriti (Anthony M. Dawson)
> made about a dozen of cannibal films, some of them marketed under the
> title "Mondo Cannibale". Most of them play in jungle territory where
> white American heroes are confronted with the "last" cannibal tribes.
> The typical iconography of the genre involves bloody orgies, body
> mutilation, humans being gutted out and eaten, (real) animal slaughter
> in front of the camera, voyeuristic nudity and sex and, at least in
> the
> early years of the genre, straight-forward exoticist and racist
> stereotyping of "the savage".
>
> In later cannibal movies, however, these depictions become ambivalent.
> Deodato's controversial master piece "Cannibal Holocaust" for example
> manages to be exploitation and critical reflection, trashy and complex
> at the same time. In Jess Franco's cannibal movies, genre stereotypes
> turn into bizarre camp.
> On the one hand, cannibal movies as mutants of the classical adventure
> movies, enriched with elements of the older "Mondo"
> pseudo-documentaries, soft porn and zombie flicks, are no-holds-barred
> mainstream cinema without the restraints of good taste and profit
> maximization. On the other hand they are the predecessors of the
> "cinema
> of transgression", with striking aesthetic parallels to underground
> films.
>
> Along many film examples, the lecture will tell an illustrated
> critical
> history of the (mainly Italian) cannibal cinema.
>
> The presentation includes short excerpts from the following films:
> - Il paese del sesso selvaggio ("The Land of Savage Sex") / Mondo
> Cannibale 1 - Umberto Lenzi (Italy 1972)
> - Mondo Cane - Gualtiero Jacopetti & Franco Prosperi (Italy 1962)
> - Ultimo mondo cannibale / Mondo Cannibale 2 - Ruggero Deodato (Italy
> 1977)
> - Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals - Joe d'Amato (Italy 1980)
> - Apocalipse domani / Cannibal Apocalypse - Anthony M. Dawson (Italy
> 1980)
> - Zombi Holocaust - Marino Girolami (Italy 1980)
> - Cannibal Holocaust - Ruggero Deodato (Italy 1980)
> - Mondo Cannibale / Mondo Cannibale 3 - Jess Franco (Spain / France
> Germany 1980)
> - Ana Aktion Brus - Kurt Kren (Austria 1964)
> - The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover - Peter Greenaway
> (France
> / The Netherlands / England 1989)
>
>
> Florian Cramer, born 1969, studied Comparative Literature and Art
> History in Berlin, Constance and Amherst/Massachusetts, writer on the
> arts and media culture, lecturer at Piet Zwart Instituut Media Design
> Rotterdam.
>
> Date: Tuesday 12 September, 19.30 hours
> Location: Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Cinema 1, Hoogt 4, Utrecht
> Ticket: 7 euro (6 euro with reduction)
> Reservations via 't Hoogt: 030 2328388 / [email protected]
> More information: www.impakt.nl
>
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