Death of a Chinese Clown (2016) by Jaime Cleeland (10.04 minutes)
More of an experimental succession of extreme images that an actual film, “Death of a Chinese Clown” was shot in Xuchang, China with the purpose of showing that underground cinema can be made in the country.
In that fashion, the short shows a clown in different settings. First him dancing, walking, and riding a bike in a park, then him dancing half-naked, including a swinging penis, wearing garter belts, and then assaulting a girl. All the while, extremely colored images and minor visual effects appear on screen, inducing the film with a sense of disorientation and even danger, that is heightened even more by the noise music that plays throughout, as the film actually function as a music video.
Although quite difficult to make a critique of the film, Cleeland shows much promise in portraying extreme images in extreme fashion, and...
More of an experimental succession of extreme images that an actual film, “Death of a Chinese Clown” was shot in Xuchang, China with the purpose of showing that underground cinema can be made in the country.
In that fashion, the short shows a clown in different settings. First him dancing, walking, and riding a bike in a park, then him dancing half-naked, including a swinging penis, wearing garter belts, and then assaulting a girl. All the while, extremely colored images and minor visual effects appear on screen, inducing the film with a sense of disorientation and even danger, that is heightened even more by the noise music that plays throughout, as the film actually function as a music video.
Although quite difficult to make a critique of the film, Cleeland shows much promise in portraying extreme images in extreme fashion, and...
- 7/17/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Chandradeep Das, son of veteran director Anjan Das, shot this Bengali short in collaboration with Bhavana Goparaju, Nikita Ivanenko (producers) and Rinat Yulushev (associate producer), as the kickstart of Wintry Candles Pproductions, whose purpose is to take their multicultural stories to the global stage.
The film revolves around an elderly woman, whose attachment to the past and particularly her dead husband has led her outside of society and into becoming a nagging old lady who constantly fights with her maid and her neighbors, a woman and a little child who occasionally plays in the shared corridor in the building. The kids in the neighborhood pester her, throwing rocks and breaking her windows any chance they get, with her barely managing to control her nerves. As she considers herself already dead, when she receives a large sum from her husband’s insurance, she spends all of it in building a tomb...
The film revolves around an elderly woman, whose attachment to the past and particularly her dead husband has led her outside of society and into becoming a nagging old lady who constantly fights with her maid and her neighbors, a woman and a little child who occasionally plays in the shared corridor in the building. The kids in the neighborhood pester her, throwing rocks and breaking her windows any chance they get, with her barely managing to control her nerves. As she considers herself already dead, when she receives a large sum from her husband’s insurance, she spends all of it in building a tomb...
- 4/8/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Swedish actor Peter Sjöquist grew up near a Viking excavation site in a suburb outside Stockholm. A visit there as an eight year old initiated a reading frenzy and he read everything he could find about Vikings. Now he will become one himself in Nikita Ivanenko Viking saga “ The Dead Man's Mound ”, thanks to Jonas Wolcher who is producing this big production. When Jonas Wolcher first started planning this studio picture, Peter Sjöquist was one of the first to get involved. They had been in contact through LinkedIn and Jonas was impressed by Peter’s acting style. He asked Peter if he would mind running around with guns, shooting monsters in one of his films and Peter was thrilled. When Ivanenko’s script the found its way to Jonas’ desk, he immediately thought of Peter as one of the...
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- 1/26/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Creator Of New Swedish Genre Cinema Makes Viking Picture By Carola Knubben and Liv Gorissen at Conmose Swedish film maker Jonas Wolcher. Is back in the producers chair again but this time with a much bigger production. I'm planning a studio picture Nikita Ivanenko's viking saga “The Dead Man's Mound” directed by the award winning Chandradeep Das, which is in the pre-production. An authentic historical movie with a great crew and with actors from all over the world. Everything you see in the movie is for real. It's made by craftsmen from actual findings in Scandinavia. It's a pretty big production with a lot of crew. We want to shoot the movie in late 2019 on locations in Sweden and in Iceland. At the moment we are looking for more investors. The...
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- 1/17/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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