From: Ron Toole (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 09:13:28 PST
Steve or Gibbs-
Know of a resource for purchasing a DVD copy of
…AND THEN GOD BECAME DISORIENTED IN THE FOREST OF HIGHER
ANIMALS
?
I've gotta see this one...
thanks,
R. Toole
Washington DC
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Steve Polta <email suppressed> wrote:
From: Steve Polta <email suppressed>
Subject: Re: Apocalypse films
To: email suppressed
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 9:28 PM
Another pretty good set-in-San Francisco and (sorta) shot like a documentary is
the clumsily-titled …AND THEN GOD BECAME DISORIENTED IN THE FOREST OF HIGHER
ANIMALS, a virtually unknown (at this late date) feature-length film by Gibbs
Chapman, produced under the moniker "J.G. Chapman" I believe, and
"released" circa 1995. It's basically a loose-jointed dystopian
sci-fi film that plays like a shaggy dog kind of slacker vehicle. A group of
vague rebels live outside the corporate/government city/state scavenging and
building things, having vaguely existentialist conversations. It's
beautifully shot and has a nice slow pacing and uses all sorts of actual
(clearly un-permitted) locations (SF airport parking lot; BART; middle of the
street downtown), kind of transforming San Francisco and environs into an empty
future city. I thought it was a great film when it came out. I saw it twice in
'95; can't say I heard of a screening since, or outside the Bay Area,
although it's hard to believe.
Deep trivia junkies will no doubt thrill to note that the film stars one-time
Werepad impresario Jacques Boyreau, himself a maker of such underground classics
as PLANET MANSON, HIPPIE PORN (disputed), and IN.
———steve polta
--- On Tue, 1/20/09, k. a.r. <email suppressed> wrote:
> From: k. a.r. <email suppressed>
> Subject: Re: Apocalypse films
> To: email suppressed
> Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 5:02 PM
> there is an independent film that I got from netflix.
> It is called ever since the world ended, and is set in San
> Francisco.
> Shot documentary style.
>
> this is a really good one, too. Its animated. Also has a
> cool David Gilmore/Bowie soundtrack. Its about 45 minutes
> long, I think.
>
> "When the Wind Blows depicts a nuclear attack on the
> UK by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a retired
> couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs. The Bloggs live in rural
> Sussex
> and exhibit considerable confusion regarding the nature and
> seriousness
> of their situation, which is sometimes used to generate
> gentle comedy
> as well as darker elements. As the novel progresses their
> situation
> becomes steadily more hopeless as they suffer from the
> effects of radiaiton sickness. The film ends on an extremely
> bleak note, with them both dying as they pray."
>
>
>
>
>
> Kristie Reinders, B.F.A.
>
> Director of Cinematography, Electric Visions
>
> Curator and Head Projectionist, Electric Mural Project
>
> The Mission, San Francisco, CA
>
>
>
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> pressure.'
>
> - - - Issac Asimov
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