Welcome to the third Friday Feature from my side! Today I will be writing about Angeline Gragasin, who describes herself as a Woman of The Future. I can agree to that, since she on her website states to “sets out to revolutionize the death industry one corpse at a time”. This references her series of videos The Ecstacy of Decay, which you can see below. Her perspective of accessing this topic is very open, sometimes provocative. Where both episodes have strong resemblance with a documentary, the first one has more video footage and the second is compiled from still-life images, video and voice-over, which is because it pictures the history of the corpse in America. In her director reel for 2011, that is linked on her vimeo profile, she also shows that she does not only direct camera shot footage, but also digital productions like animations. Apart from her profile on vimeo, you can also find her on her website angelinegragasin.com.

Today was announced that the Sintel movie has already got a million views on youtube. (direct link)

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Maybe you will recognise a character from a previous open movie project The story and the execution are pretty well done. There’s an awesome turning point, so watch and share this

Martyrs is the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen and it’s different from a lot of horror movies I have seen. The plot is simple, but the film doesn’t suffer from that. It’s keeping the accident thrill. It’s horrible but you don’t want to look away either. Not only through very explicit visualisations of violence but also through the extremely emotional demonstration of force this is one of the most disgusting movies I have watched so far. It reminded me of real torture, the concentration camps from WWII and the feeling of complete helplessness. Maybe it’s one of the best movies to show how wrong abusing other people through physical force really is.

9/10

Links:

• Martyrs at the imdb

Mirrors was very thrilling to see. The story is not very different from most horror movies, but it’s a good one. It’s scary, brutal and the end is genius. Kiefer Sutherland as Ben Carson is my personal highlight of the movie, reminding me a little of Flatliners. A broken man that is doubting his senses and though trying to stand against his fears. The other world, the one behind the looking glass is described as dark and horrible in this movie. If you like horror movies, see this one. Beware, the 18+ classification for German cinemas is justified. 8 of 10.

• Mirrors trailer on Youtube

The german production of Krabat (with some very cool german actors) was a disappointment. I expected a movie that was close to the book and not miles away like this pseudo romantic rape of the book model. The only nice adoption is the masters voice and force over his journeymen. A lot of conflicts, events and depht is lost compared to the book.
After all, I had expected more, but it’s 4 of 10. If you have the time to read the book, do it and don’t waste the money on the cinema (or bandwidth for the download).
If you know the book, the songs done by ASP on this topic may interest you. The album “Zaubererbruder” is dedicated to Ottfried Preußlers wonderful book.

Links:

• ASPs website