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offline broken phillip on 2003-08-26 08:23 [#00836993]
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: )

http://www.sbs.com.au/eatcarpet/


 

offline broken phillip on 2003-08-26 08:28 [#00836999]
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what is eatcarpet?

eatcarpet brings the most unlikely, the occasionally
perplexing,
the undeniably provocative but always the BEST short films,
videos
and animations to Australian television screens every
saturday night of the year.

about eatcarpet....

audiences often ask: "what does eatcarpet mean?"... the
easiest answer is that to literally do what the title
suggests, that is to 'eat carpet', would seem strange,
bizarre, impossible, quirky, tasteless, unheard of...Do
these descriptions fit the broad range of short narratives,
dance works, animations and experimental documentaries,
which are screened on eatcarpet? yes.
This year, eatcarpet celebrates its 13th birthday on
Australian television.
As the only regular, weekly timeslot where audiences can
watch innovative, experimental and entertaining short films
from Australia and around the world, eatcarpet still stands
alone.


 

offline glass_eater from a blind nerves area (Switzerland) on 2003-08-26 08:45 [#00837019]
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broken phillip maybe the film you were talking about is "les
idiots" / "the dumbs" from Lars von Tier (dancing in the
dark)


 

offline jenf from Toronto (Canada) on 2003-08-26 08:52 [#00837028]
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yeah, eraserhead is up there.


 

offline Junktion from Northern Jutland (Denmark) on 2003-08-26 08:53 [#00837030]
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Mulholland Dr.


 

offline atgmartin from DeathMallMegaComplexville (United States) on 2003-08-26 08:54 [#00837032]
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Weirdest movie I've seen:
Werner Herzog's Stroszek.


 

offline broken phillip on 2003-08-26 08:54 [#00837033]
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nope it wasnt that movie.
lol glass eater that is a funny one : )
"the idiots" that is a "dogma" movie isnt it?

um my fave part in that is when one of the guys tries to
drive the blue van.
lol its bouncing all over the the place..
the idiots also has some great sex scenes in it.

the midget movie was shot in black and white..
it looked oldish maybe 20 years old??
but it can be tricky to tell whith black and white if you do
it proply.


 

offline broken phillip on 2003-08-26 08:58 [#00837035]
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maybee older.. could have been made in the 60-early 70's

the weirdest thing about it was that there was no actual
plot or script..

it was like they just go a bunch of fun loving midgets took
them to this place out in the country and said "go for gold
guys". "act as crazy as you want".

freestyle weirdness : )


 

offline Komakino from Tan-giers USSR (Russia) on 2003-08-26 12:36 [#00837310]
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broken phillip: i think you're talking about Werner Herzog's
"Even Dwarfs Started Small"

I didn't think Stroszek was weird, just brilliant.



 

offline broken phillip on 2003-08-26 20:57 [#00837838]
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ok exellent.
thanks komakino : )
that sounds about right.

just did a search.. that is the movie
thanks a million komakino : )
----------------------------------------
Description
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--Director Werner Herzog's second feature film is a triumph
of cinematic irreverence and uncompromising creativity. A
cast that's comprised entirely of dwarfs stages an
uproarious and chaotic rebellion in a remote and picturesque
mountain asylum of undetermined purpose. Shot in harsh yet
sumptuous black and white, the film features the upturned
idyll of the sanitarium playing host to the erotically
obsessed and absurdly acting dwarfs as they create a
microcosm of the real world’s ridicules. Unforgettable
images, such as a group of blind dwarfs wearing oversize
darkened goggles while hobbling along a mountain path and a
dwarf couple attempting to consummate their relationship by
leaping from a stack of magazines onto the conjugal bed,
make EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL a thoroughly challenging
visual experience as well as a compelling allegory for
society and its outcasts. As the visual absurdity of the
film reaches a sort of slow-motion fever pitch, Herzog’s
innate humanism injects the seemingly inhuman scenario with
a deep pathos that captures viewers' attention as well as
sympathy.

Synopsis
----------
--Herzog's irreverent film features a cast that's comprised
entirely of dwarfs.

Annotation
------------
--EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL was banned from Germany, and
director Werner Herzog had to distribute the film himself
despite various death threats.



 

offline broken phillip on 2003-08-26 21:00 [#00837843]
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EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL was initially to be shot in
Mexico, but was eventually filmed in the Canary Islands.

Herzog placed an ad in a German paper in order to find
someone to make wedding clothes for insects for a scene in
the film.

Herzog promised the all dwarf cast of EVEN DWARFS STARTED
SMALL, that if they made it through the film unscathed, he
would jump into a cactus field, which he eventually did.
----------------------------------------
Release Info:
--B&W Film
--Year Released: 1971
--RunTime: 96 Min.
--Subtitled in English
--Release Language: German
--Original Language: German
--------------------------------------
cool so i was pretty close with the date too : )


 

offline happy cycling from berlin on 2003-08-26 21:08 [#00837849]
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okay, i'm really sorry, but this is hands down, the WEIRDEST
movie ever, period.

jodorowsky's el topo

scenes that stand out are when el topo (a lone mexican
cowboy) riding with his perpetually naked, seven year old
son find a cache of women's high-heeled shoes which they
fire at/lick. or when they arrive at a bunny farm in the
middle of the desert and set it on fire. or when he fights
the double-man (a legless amputee mounted atop an armless
amputee). or when the priest runs away with the elderly
midget grandmother. and so on. i'm not making any of this
up.

http://imdb.com/Title?0067866


 

offline flim nanou from out of the frying pan (United States) on 2003-08-26 21:16 [#00837857]
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dang... I'm going to have to go back and peruse this list at
length cos I've only read a few but they all sound really
dope

but then I am kind of into weird flicks

my favorite flick is Gummo but the weirdest flick I've ever
seen is called Julien Donkey Boy, it's actuall really
brilliant, it's by the same chap that directed Gummo
(harmony korine. he also wrote Kids which is great)
anyway, I've dropped the title of that flick before on this
board I know but go see it you bastards.
also, have you ever seen Brewster McCloud? another one of my
favorites. holy shit! that movie is flat strange my friends.



 

offline atgmartin from DeathMallMegaComplexville (United States) on 2003-08-27 09:34 [#00838556]
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How about the whole animal menagerie at the end?!? That was
weird. yes the movie was brilliant, but it was the kind of
movie where it's very coherent until the last 15 minutes,
and then you have to watch it over and over to figure out
what the writer was thinking! And that music!!! I love it.
I want to make a T-shirt of the scene where Bruno is
driving and the old guy is sitting in the passenger seat
holding the rifle. I just have to find the movie! (ebay is
pricey on this one.)


 

offline atgmartin from DeathMallMegaComplexville (United States) on 2003-08-27 09:40 [#00838563]
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"Yes, but you fell over. It's a proud man who stands up and
smokes a cigarette like that"

"Yeah, but I don't smoke"

"ahhh, you'll learn it."

I love that exchange in Julien Donkey Boy. One of my all
time fav movies.


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2003-08-27 10:32 [#00838658]
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A bunch of old surrealist black & white short films they
made us watch in my field production class. The titles are
escaping me at the moment.


 

offline kurrrak from Bialystok (Poland) on 2003-08-27 10:35 [#00838666]
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Un Chien Andalou - 1928?


 

offline Morton from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-08-27 10:36 [#00838672]
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i wish you'd get that purple haired chick back in your
avatar

she was fine


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2003-08-27 10:42 [#00838683]
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I'm not sure, kurrrak. One had a woman who was having a
dream and she went to all these different places outside.
Another took place on a train.

Morton, I'm going to do an avatar update soon.


 

offline kurrrak from Bialystok (Poland) on 2003-08-27 10:43 [#00838687]
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Un Chien Andalou - 1928 <<---there's a "cutting eyeball"
scene


 

offline Gonzola from Stockholm (Sweden) on 2003-08-27 10:48 [#00838702]
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Ichi the Killer by Takashi Miike is the strangest film in
the world



 

offline Gonzola from Stockholm (Sweden) on 2003-08-27 10:49 [#00838703]
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it's very good tho, i really recomend it


 

offline mashnote from mol (Belgium) on 2003-08-27 10:54 [#00838706]
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really weird : eraserhead

some other movies i find gross/hilarious

+mermaid in a manhole
+c'est arrivé pres de chez vous (man bites dog)
+fear and loathing in LV
+zombi 90
+and a movie about a japanese concentration camp where they
did all sorts of experiments with the prisoners (omg, the
high pressure room-scene is GROSS)



 

offline Morton from out (Netherlands, The) on 2003-08-27 14:50 [#00839189]
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hurray! :D


 

offline blrr from the block on 2003-08-27 15:21 [#00839265]
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anyone seen "Timecode" (4-way split screen all the way
through)


 

offline damion from Auckland (New Zealand) on 2003-08-27 18:39 [#00839529]
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anyone seen "The Tin Drum"
its about a little boy who makes himself stop growing at 3,
and has a high pitched scream which breaks glass.
Gets alot weirder from there...


 

offline Key_Secret from Sverige (Sweden) on 2003-08-27 18:40 [#00839531]
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seen timecod.e. it's not hat weird ;)
nekromantic (like I posted earlier) is fucking weird...
dark dark humour..
german underground.


 

offline LeCoeur from the outer edge of the universe (United States) on 2003-08-27 19:54 [#00839582]
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Liquid Sky! oyessssssssheeeeesh


 


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