Small gauge Trauma

MARIO DEGIGLIO-BELLEMARE

THIS YEAR, SMALL GAUGE TRAUMA PROGRAMMER MITCH DAVIS WOVE TOGETHER A SIGNATURE SELECTION OF EIGHT SHORT FILMS, which move between beautiful puppet animation and visceral body horror, beginning with Ben Steiner’s The Stomach (UK), which presents a very unique premise: a medium able to communicate with people from beyond the grave through his stomach! The filmmaker creatively hybridizes the gritty British gangster film, body horror and the supernatural subgenre, and carries that exquisite mix to a forceful denouement. In addition, Canadian animator Chris Walsh’s The Shutterbug Man is a sublime and haunting tale of a twisted man who takes pictures of terrible places. A meditation on the filmic gaze, it’s narrated by the iconic Barbara Steele (Black Sunday). Then there’s Slut, by Chloe Okuno (USA), a tightly directed dark comedy about the…

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RUE MORGUE (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 160 October 2015 Halloween Special Issue

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