- news 2008
NICE BOMBS repeats on the Sundance Channel: Monday July 14 at 1:45 CT / 2:45pm ET
March19 2008 NICE BOMBS has its Broadcast Premiere on THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL.
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NICE BOMBS wins BEST DOCUMENTARY at the 9th annual Westchester County International Film Festival.
- news 2007
OTHER CINEMA RELEASES ALSHAIBI SHORT VIDEO ON EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2
Check out the new release by OTHER CINEMA- EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR - which features my video for MAGIC IS KÜNTMASTER: HOLD MY SCISSORS-- which made the DVD cover!
OTHER CINEMA DIGITAL RELEASES "EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2"
(San Francisco, CA) Following in the ominous footsteps of our acclaimed 2003 avant-horror extravaganza EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR, OCD proudly announces the upcoming release of EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2. Curated by Noel Lawrence with invaluable assistance from Craig Baldwin, this very special film collection is available on DVD.
Creeping once more into the darkest corners of the cinematic imaginary, EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2 disinters a body of ghoulish works to satisfy our most perverse celluloid cravings.
Body-parts of cinema past – silents, grindhouse, giallos, Hitchcock, and Karloff – are exhumed, disemboweled, then stitched back together into shockingly new creations of frightful power and monstrous beauty through fiendishly clever montage and sinister sound design.
Highlights include Bill Morrison's "The Mesmerist", a sublime reworking of James Young's "The Bells" (1926); the legendary J.X. Williams' ultra-rare short "Psych-Burn" ("...strips the form of horror to its essentials." -- Jack Sargeant); and Damon Packard's "The Early 70s Horror Trailer", a perfect simulacrum of the fustian trailers from the Golden Age of Grindhouse.
Using crazed camerawork, mesmerizing mise-en-scene, and the alchemy of experimental technique, a new generation of cine-spooks apply aesthetic shocks to the rotten corpse of genre convention, re-animating it into a very contemporary order of horror film – graphic, ironic, poetic...undead!
"Deliciously dead-on recreations of 60s psychedelic-nightmare cinema and 70s drive-in horror ...plus animated skeletons doin' it every which way, experimental remixes of classic genre footage, vintage trailer trash, and more...."
` – Dennis Harvey, Variety/SF Bay Guardian
EXPERIMENTS IN TERROR 2
95 minutes
Price: $24.95
Featuring:
Bill Morrison (with music by Bill Frisell) – "The Mesmerist"
Damon Packard – "The Early 70s Horror Trailer"
J.X. Williams – "Psych-Burn"
Wago Kreider – "Between 2 Deaths"
Michelle Silva – "Amor Peligrosa"
Usama Alshaibi – "Hold My Scissors"
Lloyd M. Williams – "Opus 5"
Angel Nieves – "The Fear"
Clifton Childree & Nikki Rollason – "She Sank on Shallow Bank"
Seventh Art Releasing picks up Artvamp and Benzfilm Group Production NICE BOMBS for distribution.
Seventh Art will run NICE BOMBS, Usama Alshaibi's Iraq Documentary, in select theaters in NYC, Chicago and other cities starting Summer 2007.
http://nicebombs.com
For more information, a screener of the film or to schedule an interview contact:
BENZFILM GROUP
400 S. Main St. #2B LA, CA 90013 213-613-0229 office 213-613-0269 fax
www.benzfilm.com info@benzfilm.com
- news 2006
Filmmaker Blog by Scott Macaulay: KINKED OUT (October 17, 2006)
Recent press on NICE BOMBS:
-Time Out reviews Nice Bombs, August 17-23, 2006.
-Michael Phillips FIlm Review, Chicago Tribune.
-Jason Mojica, Feature article in Time Out Chicago August 10
Allahu Akbar is available on a DVD compilation called 'RESISTANCE[S]: Experimental films from the Middle East and North Africa. For more information go to: lowave.com
2005 (archive)
Past Z Film Festival Shows:
The Death of the Z Film Festival (October 15, 2005)
Audiophilia (June 20, 2004)
The Sleaze Z Fest 2 (October 23, 2004)
The
4th Annual Z Film Festival (January 10 &11, 2004)
The
Sleaze Z Fest (June 14, 2003)
The
3rd Annual Z Film Festival (December 13 & Sat.
14, 2002)
The
2nd Annual Z FIlm Festival (December 1, 2000)
The
1st Annual Z Film Festival (December 8 & 10,
2001)
Actors and performers needed for various projects. If you are interested please email me.