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The work of the filmmaker, born 1957 in the United States and author Buddy Giovinazzo is as narrow as important to the history of American underground cinema. Growing up in Staten Iceland, then one of the most run-down district of New York, where his first two feature films are located, began Giovinazzo mid-70s to shoot Super 8 movies. Together with his brother Rick, who later wrote the music for his films, gründtete Giovinazzo a punk band, resorted to first appearances at the legendary CBGBs, but on the rotation of videos for other bands. In the early 80s followed short films as Lobotomy and The Christmas Album , 1986, came out Combat Shock, a valid study to date on urban and mental decay. This theme is also found in the later works No Way Home (1996) and Life Is Hot in Crack Town (2009) again, poverty, addiction, crime, broken families and violence are everywhere. The film features a radically pessimistic to find and the attitude of courage, candid photos for an existence beyond the Existenzminimus.

Life is hot sweat in the Films of Buddy Giovinazzo, the characters, they are under pressure, just before exploding. The apartments are no safe havens, but buggy mud holes from which they fled rather in the ruined streets, in families, there is no security, but stress and contempt that society is so remote as the moon. The cities look like in the war destroyed and eaten by mold as the power is in the hands of pimps and drug dealers, keep all the threads of the underground economy in their hands. There is no Solidarity between the characters, each fighting and dying for their own. Buddy Giovinazzo: "I was always interested in the issues of poverty and violence, I really do not know why. I think it's the people that fall through the social grid, follow me. Their stories touch me, are so much more moving than the more or less normal, we make every day on the road. "

In the series" Cinema Bizarre "will present his work in Buddy Giovinazzo B-Movie and three films that have influenced him.

Friday 11 June, 21 Clock, Double-Feature:

Joe - revenge for America , USA 1970, 107 min, VHS, DF, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon

Eraserhead , USA 1976, 89 min, 35mm , OF, directed David Lynch , Starring: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Judith Roberts

The influence of Eraserhead on Combat Shock is obvious: young fathers on the verge of a nervous breakdown escape from the hell of responsibility and the noise of the deformed offspring - with Lynch in a mirror world behind the heater in Giovinazzo in the streets of Staten Iceland, which look even more parlous than the industrial ruins of Pittsburgh. A different kind of urban nightmare presented Rocky director Avildsen in the unjustly forgotten Joe in which the frightening Peter Boyle organized as a racist avenger of the man in a massacre on hippies, along with a father who lost his daughter to the drug believes. Since neither a film nor a DVD copy could be found, we show Joe in allerschönstem VHS Color. Buddy Giovinazzo: "What Joe for me so extraordinary, is how directly the racism of the main character is shown. The truth is told, without any attempt to make the character sympathetic. This Film is like Combat Shock the time capsule of a city, New York in the 70s. This film Peter Boyle has made a career. "

Saturday 12 June, 20 clock:

Combat Shock - Uncut (with supporting movie Maniac 2 ), USA 1986, 100 min, 16mm, original version, directed by Buddy Giovinazzo, Cast: Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio

Buddy Giovinazzo almost no money shot in the streets of Staten Iceland with this tale of a Vietnam returnee one of the milestones of the U.S. underground cinema of the 80s. The ubiquitous decay that all the faces, houses, things have attacked, we mean being able to smell almost as well as the expired milk, which plays a role in the memorable finale. Anticipate we will show the promo trailer for Maniac 2: Mr. Robbie , has turned the Giovinazzo 1989 with Joe Spinell shortly before his death.

Life Is Hot in Crack Town

Saturday 12 June, 22 clock:

Life Is Hot in Crack Town , USA 2009, 99 min, 35mm, directed by Buddy Giovinazzo, Cast: Evan Ross, Desmond Harrington, Lara Flynn Boyle

Buddy Giovinazzos latest work, a filming of his first novel, is a kind Short Cuts the middle and hopeless. Atmospherically dense and with his usual flair the fears and dreams of the poor and addicts, Giovinazzo said the complex interwoven stories of a variety of figures, for each new day is a struggle for survival is. On the festival with the film was enthusiastically celebrated last year.

Sunday 13 June, 15.30 Clock:

Pink Flamingos , USA 1972, 100 min, 35mm, with subtitles, Director: John Waters Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole

"cannibalism, rape, a feeble-minded grandmother in the playpen, the pleasurable eating of dog waste - underground film director John Waters to mocking the sacred taboos of cultural goods. As the title threatens: An exercise in poor taste. "( Catholic film Service ). But if you look long and carefully enough, that has understood Buddy Giovinazzo as opposed to the Fathers: Then beauty and truth of it. Buddy Giovinazzo: "The movie showed me that anyone can make a film. Pink Flamingos was shot without any budget, with friends as actors and crew, and I was totally inspired. Simply hold of a camera and make a movie. "

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A doctor, he should not be

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A little typology of the Mad Doctor

Daring cuts are a unifying element of Cinema Bizarre and advanced medical work on the body. Directors like Lucio Fulci, which a falling film body not only from a distance, but also brutally into the assembled close-ups show what rock can do with a human face ( Do not Torture a Duckling , 1972), have as much spirit of research such as Dr. Herbert West and his colleagues, Sew the bat wings on heads ( Bride of Re-Animator , directed by Brian Yuzna , 1990). Film and medicine influence each other improve in their visionary search for the new meat in their attempts to beautify the human body to revive, to control and make it last longer. Here are a few branches of research have emerged, here will be presented shortly.


first Re-animation. Research purpose: Reviving a dead being, as a whole or by joining various parts. Famous representatives: Victor Frankenstein, Herbert West (Re-Animator , Bride of Re-Animator ). The victory over death, which is the oldest and most frightening dream of the medical profession. A problem of this branch is the access to research results: although there are many dead bodies, they get to heavy. Result is usually one or the other form of acquisitive crime, often by grave robbery, and sometimes by the Mad Doctor carried a living death, to bring him back then can. The experiment succeeds, the next biggest problem arises, the zombie phenomenon has revived the body is not necessarily a revitalized spirit. Most of the entire human civilization Sublimationsapparat on the threshold between death and life is stuck, leaving only aggressive drive monster that react only to one or the other primary stimulus. The disturbed balance between bodily impulses and regulating consciousness is the central problem of all Mad Doctors.


second Plastic Surgery. Research Purpose: Restoration of the external shell of the body after heavy Accidents / injuries. Famous representatives: Dr. Genessier (Les yeux sans visage , directed by Georges Franju, 1960), Dr. Keloid ( Rabid, directed by David Cronenberg, 1977). As with the Re-animators, there are also the transplant outside a procurement problem, because some has to come the new, tender skin, yes. Here are two solutions to be distinguished: First, the material is being operated by the patients themselves, as in the clinic of Dr. keloid, the "morphogenetic neutralized 'own tissue transplanted. Second, the material comes from not always voluntary foreign volunteers, like Dr. Genessier who wants to model his disfigured by an accident daughter a new face why his assistant must constantly acquire new students. Foreign material is not difficult to obtain, it is also repelled often, as in Dr. Genessier, or developed a life of its own (as in the subgenre of "transplant killer hands": Orlacs hands , The Beast with Five Fingers , Mad Love ). Another danger to mutations and the appearance of body parts as in Rabid .


third Vivisection / re-combination. Research Purpose: creation of hybrid creatures. Famous representatives: Dr. Moreau. Mad Doctors play God do all a little bit, but not in such great Scale as the representative of this genus. Moreau's avowed desire to make the island a little man-like beasts of his hidden, hardly the underlying ambition of the ruler of his own creation to be. Main problem with this line of research is primarily the large space requirements. A remote island, it must be so.


4th De-and rematerialization. Research purposes: invisibility and / or teleportation of organic matter. Famous representatives: Sebastian Caine ( Hollow Man, directed by Paul Verhoeven, 2000), Seth Brundle (The Fly , directed by David Cronenberg, 1986). This line of research is the furthest from the classical Human medicine away, knowledge of the molecular physics and biochemistry is a plus. Maybe because they lack the patient base, the scientists working in this field like in person. As so often in experiments on the body's radical transformation leads to a regression of civilization, so that the invisible men usually think of nothing better than to enrich the material, and lick of visible female bodies. In its purest form, the related technical progress shows atavism in the shape of the Brundlefly, a reminder of the monstrous power of chance, which holds even in the most controlled experimental designs of modern medicine feeder.


5th Brain Fucking. Research purpose: mental optimization of people, relief from psychological and social constraints. Famous representatives: Dr. Jekyll, Dr. O'Blivion ( Videodrome, directed by David Cronenberg, 1983). The ugly side effect of most body experiments of Mad Doctors, desublimation and release of animal instinct is the declared main aim of this research direction. What Dr. Jekyll is succeeded by chance, especially for doctors in many of David Cronenberg films, the main concern: total disinhibition in the sense of Re-/Deprogrammierung "harmful" civilizational patterns. Whether the sex of the parasites, Dr. Emil Hobbes ( Shivers, 1975), Dr. Hal Raglan Psychoplasmics with which one can materialize let his fears and desires ( The Brood, 1979), or administered by the TV signal Brainwash O'Blivion of Brian, is the focus of these experiments always the (sexual) liberation of people from the shackles of reason, which leads according to the dialectic of Mad-Doctor movies to an even more gracious looser submission under the heel of the (new) flesh.

The two earliest examples of that architectural feature of buildings unverputzem concrete, in which David Cronenberg and his Mad Doctors looking after the "new meat", the Canadian Academy for Erotic Inquiry ( Stereo , 1969) and the House of Skin ( Crimes of the Future, 1970). Never again did the scientist and director of experimental arrangements so perfect to cover in these two early works Cronenberg. In both films was omitted narration and dialogue, instead there is a cool, scientific look that is particularly interested in the movement of subjects through the surrounding space and Cronenberg compares with the observation of an aquarium. In Stereo follows this view seven subjects that will develop by surgical removal of their language skills and social isolation telepathic abilities, is in Crimes of the Future it to the triggered by new cosmetics global extinction of all mature women. In both films, accompanied by a scientific objectivity suggestive voice-over the running out of control experiments, the promise of a new human being ends in radical dehumanization.

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Saturday 15 May, 21 clock, B-Movie :
Bizarre Cinema double feature with Re-Animator & Bride of Re-Animator

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Monster of Hamburg

Monster make love and monsters are sometimes very lonely passions. The Mad Scientist , stitched together in his lab dug up body parts occurs, usually only to the public if it is too late and his creature's recovering from the glue. And honored the fan, the giant lizards, man and wolf undead nobles, often spends his time alone in the living room, surrounded by shelves full of videos, posted pictures and fanzines that get to see him except no one ever.

that there is another way, Ralf Lorenz want to take the first Hamburg-scifi-horror-show festival . Co-organizers, together with Andreas Schiefler he brings a whole weekend all the European and Asian monster on the giant screen of the Metropolis , he loves since his youth. And hopes that the monster fans in and around Hamburg finally leave again her living room to movies together such as Jun Fukuda Godzilla - to celebrate Frankenstein Höllenbrut , Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires and Roger Corman the Pendulum . "This is most important for me," says Lorenz, "that people get together there, that they have in common bellow their fun, and cheer and remember the event so soon."

terror at Dammtor: Kongula - monkeys of the Colossal Beast

Meanwhile Ralf Lorenz has already some of these local events monster off the ground, as the two legendary "paw movie nights", which took place in 2007 and 2008 in 3001-sold-out cinema. Best remembered him is the fifth October 2003 remained. At that time, ran a ten-minute teaser of Kongula - Monkeys of the Colossal Beast , the "first hamburger monster movie", in which Lorenz had tinkered for months at home. In one of his room he had built up a blue screen before it in person in a gorilla costume a cut in the City of retracting ICE, he used smoke machine and the camera and said everything behind in elaborate detail work on the computer to Scenes together, celebrating the hundreds of spectators in the Metropolis with standing ovations.

A monster to Hear: Gualagon - Frankenstein's horror giant

now is the film on ice, the monster making was Ralf Lorenz then it is too lonely job: "For such a project you need many committed supporters. . And they are hard to find 'the next monster is already in the works, with three red glowing eyes staring at an approaching it from Lorenz' T-Shirt: Gualagon - Frankenstein's horror giant . Behind it lies a radio play , currently in the Graceland Studios Konrad Halver is realized. When Lorenz 2007, the radio play-legend Halver met, under whose direction in the 60 years the program was born of the European labels, he told him about his idea to produce a Japanese monster movie for the ears, with all the sounds, the music and the oblique dialogues that make the German dubbed versions of these works so distinctive. Halver was thrilled with his partner Sven Lorenz founded the production company Pyczak triumph of madness, his colleague Matthias Lemcke wrote from the soundtrack and Marko Peter Bachmann tinkering around the sound design. "80 percent of the radio play is finished," Lorenz says proudly, "it is still this year come out. "

monster just to make the best with others. And together, they should never look at it. You never know whom you met, a film collector, a computer specialist or a costume rental. Maybe it becomes a new monster. This can then again can watch together ...

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Monster on the move! - The 1 Hamburg-scifi-horror festival takes place from 7 to 9 May 2010 at the Metropolis cinema instead