Underground Film Guide » 2002 http://www.ufilmguide.com A Film Guide to the Strange, Unusual and Controversial Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Reflections of Evil http://www.ufilmguide.com/689/reflections-of-evil/ http://www.ufilmguide.com/689/reflections-of-evil/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:14:59 +0000 Mike Everleth http://www.ufilmguide.com/?p=689

Director: Damon Packard

Starring: Damon Packard, Nicole Vanderhoff, Beverly Miller, Dean Spunt

Year: 2002

Runtime: 138 mins.

Synopsis: Bob (director Damon Packard) is an overweight watch salesman who stumbles around Los Angeles cursing the world of movie production while slowly dying of an addiction to sugar. Can his dead sister who perished from a PCP overdose find him before he joins her on the other side?

DVD: Available from filmmaker

Official Website: None

Reviews: Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
DVD Verdict (Bill Gibron)
Monsters at Play (Lawrence P. Raffel)

Video: Trailer

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Director: Giuseppe Andrews

Starring: Gayle Wells, Walt Dongo, Bill Nowlin, Walter Patterson, Vietnam Ron

Year: 2002

Runtime: 86 mins.

Synopsis: Most of the film takes place in a trailer park and tells a basic love story between Rick, a drunk, who fishes for turds in his toilet using marshmallows as “bait” and Daisy, an old woman, who wears a plastic elf ear. As she explains to Rick, her real one got chewed off by her childhood pony after she whispered the recipe to pork chow mein in its ear. However, when Daisy meets the loud-mouthed, toupee-sportin’ Bill, she kicks Rick to the curb who then turns to drugs and smelling his own farts to soothe his broken heart. (from Bad Lit review)

DVD: Available directly from filmmaker.

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)

Video: Trailer

]]> http://www.ufilmguide.com/375/in-our-garden/feed/ 0 The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal http://www.ufilmguide.com/236/the-subconscious-art-of-graffiti-removal/ http://www.ufilmguide.com/236/the-subconscious-art-of-graffiti-removal/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:04:00 +0000 Mike Everleth http://www.ufilmguide.com/?p=236

Director: Matt McCormick

Starring: Miranda July (narrator

Year: 2002

Runtime: 17 mins.

Synopsis: Graffiti removal: the act of removing tags and graffiti by painting over them.

Subconscious art: a product of artistic merit that was created without conscious artistic intentions.

It is no coincidence that funding for “anti-graffiti” campaigns often outweighs funding for the arts. Graffiti removal has subverted the common obstacles blocking creative expression and become one of the more intriguing and important art movements of our time. Emerging from the human psyche and showing characteristics of abstract expressionism, minimalism and Russian constructivism, graffiti removal has secured its place in the history of modern art while being created by artists who are unconscious of their artistic achievements. (from Rodeo Film Company)

DVD: Peripheral Produce’s All-Time Greatest Hits (compilation)

Official Website: Rodeo Film Company

Reviews: None

Video: Excerpt

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