Djinn has been invited to its 2nd festival after its World Premiere at ADFF in 2013 and two territory releases in Japan and Turkey. It will be shown as part of the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, otherwise known as PiFan, held in Bucheon in South Korea. It is showing in the "Masters" section (along with Takashi Miike's and Terry Gilliam's new films). The genre festival runs from July 17 to 27.
Links to PIFAN's Official Site and to Djinn's film page.
Admittedly, my main excitement comes from the two new promotional images:
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Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre (Rousseau, 1983) 6
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There´s a good copy of "Eggshells" on emule, with english subtitles and audio-commentary by Hooper. The final piece of the puzzle. I think is one of the most important experimental films (or film-poem) from american cinema. I think is just as good (or even better) as anything made by Warhol, Brakhage, Wiseman, Jack Smith, etc... There are even bits of Gondry and Jonze decades before... This film needs to be shown in museums, festivals and cinema schools all around the world...
Ratings mean very little! Rousseau's completely productionless pieces and his use of in-camera 16mm flaws I find defy my search for an artistic ego. But two films into his work, I have much admiration for him. He takes experimentation with film and the general expanse of visual perception far past what Brakhage and Mekas do (so tied are they to film as film), instead reaching the great Michael Snow territory. So I think he's great.
Not to mention he may legitimize Hooper and his school of filmmaking, sharing a very similar regard of the geometries of space. "Eggshells" and "Jeune femme" also share some affinities...
I am so pleased you've tracked down EGGSHELLS. Commendations on your brilliant words. In your listing of fellow experimental filmmakers, Eggshells does seem like a compendium of the aspirations of all those models of experimental film, and thus epic and important. Indeed also ahead of its time, in regards to your mentioning Gondry and Jonze (fascinating observation).
"Not to mention he may legitimize Hooper and his school of filmmaking, sharing a very similar regard of the geometries of space. "Eggshells" and "Jeune femme" also share some affinities..."
I think you are completely right here.
And going back to Eggshells, I was expecting it to be good, even very good, but wasn´t prepared for what i have seen. I was expecting a decent previous effort to the narrative and mechanical techniques that are displayed in "Chainsaw... ", with a naive view of the hippy scene in Austin. But every scene, image and sound of this kaleidoscopic masterpiece is a marvel on itself. Sorry for the pedantic list of directors, but all those names really came to my mind while i was watching this. I have seen the film three times, and still amazed. This shed new light on his work.
It really does more for his oeuvre than any conventional narrative could have. Hooper has a profoundly noumenal interest in the world and equally vast idea of film art's scope. Couldn't agree more that it is incredibly exciting, and, as you say, as a piece of a puzzle of an artist.
I think it's flawed, but no other filmmaker posits a primer work of such limitlessness.
"But every scene, image and sound of this kaleidoscopic masterpiece is a marvel on itself." Indeed.
Any word on the screenings?
Yeah... mixed. :P
It pains me I do not have more to report!
Mixed? So more like Toolbox Murders reception that say Crocodile or Mortuary? It just annoys me that all of the Hooper talk of recent note is of the anniversary of Chainsaw, which is cool, but the man has a Djinn sitting there and it seems to be neglected.
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