WELCOME TO THE END:
Reviving the spirit of Punk Cinema, Nobert Paffenbichler’s final 2551-Entry cartographes a world in dark – like in the B-Film-Classic Mindwrap (1991) – there is a society growing underground, a fascist, repressive net of creatures. The protagonist, A monkey-man, tries to save a child. Behind masks there are more, behind every door the abyss; 2551.03 – The End is a true dystopia, Landscape made with blood and sweat – paranoia. A caricature of power. Hallways feel like Kafka wrote them, effects all hand crafted. Against totalitarianism, there is anarchist no-budget cinema!
FILM IS PRESENTED WITH A SHORT FILM
FROM.BEYOND
In today’s horror landscape, we are steadily moving away from clearly spelled-out monsters and terror. Instead, the LoFi, the blurry, Lovecraftian reversal of the “Show, Don’t Tell” maxim emerges. From.Beyond documents first contact with aliens through a kaleidoscopic blend of faux archival footage, practical effects, miniatures, and old-school in-camera trickery. The film thus shapes an aesthetic we can no longer escape: an aesthetic of suggestion, of the seduction of images, media, archives – not told through a single narrative camera lens, but through the omnipresent gaze of media.
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