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PIG'S INFERNO preceeded by REFLECTIONS THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER AT 9:30PM UGC SHAFTESBURY AVE SCREEN 2
Fantasy and reality bleed into one another in this outlandish experimental feature centred around Kaito, a writer haunted by visions of his dead sister with whom he was incestuously fixated during his childhood. Withdrawing from the cold urban landscape of the outside world, for twenty years he has kept himself shuttered away in a dark basement room, the walls and windows papered over with book pages. In a world without light, without music, without history and without spoken language, he feverishly commits his memories and emotions to paper. Vowing to kill himself within the week, upon the completion of his second novel, Pig's Inferno, he is approached by an enigmatic woman who burns his manuscripts and attempts to draw him back into the outside world. But in attempting force him to bury the past in order to face the future, will she prove his muse or his nemesis? A hypnotic collage of stark monochrome images and textures that erupts into febrile colour during the hallucinogenic second section, Pig's Inferno is a bleak meditation on permanence and decay, connection and solitude, containment and release, dominated by the animalistic presence of its central axis, and spiralling into nightmarish visions of mortality, selfmutilation and cannibalism. Its dark poetry is guaranteed to get under your skin. JS Nobu Yamaoka started his career in programming computer games. His first film, Pickled Punk (1993), was a big festival hit. His past work includes Zeki, Florian and Kelly! (1996) and the short Lovely Lovely Beautiful World! (1998). REFLECTIONS Japan | 35 mins | Dir Aimi O Prod Kees Kasander P/S aimi@photon-lab.co.jp Etienne falls in love with a girl in a dream and dreams of meeting her again. |
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