TERMINAL USA + DER ELVIS

2010-07-30

TERMINAL USA
Jon Moritsugu | USA 1993 | 57min.

Friday July 30 - Doors 8:15pm / Film 9:00pm
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SF-based underground director Jon Moritsugu (Mod Fuck Explosion, My Degeneration) was commissioned in 1993 to create "Terminal USA" for PBS TELEVISION BROADCAST. This program was broadcast in 150+ markets in 1994-1995. "What happens to the most extreme of West Coast Japanese-American no-budget punk filmmakers when he's given a sizeable budget? The family of junkies, prostitutes, and perverts who carry out their miserable and terminal existence smeared with gore is just as offensive as anything in Moritsugu's earlier DER ELVIS - but competently shot in eyeball-scorching Panavision!" (Afterimage)

Le réalisateur d’avant-garde de San Francisco, Jon Moritsugu (Mod Fuck Explosion, My Degeneration) fut mandaté en 1993 de créer ‘Terminal USA’ pour la chaîne PBS Television Broadcast. Cette émission fut diffusée dans plus de 150 pays en 1994-1995. Qu’arrive-t-il quand le plus extrême cinéaste punk américano-japonais de la Côte Ouest se

retrouve avec un budget important? Il nous parle d’une famille d’accros, de prostituées et de pervers vivant une existence misérable et terminale entachée de sang. Moritsugu y est tout aussi outrageux que dans son précédent court métrage, Der Elvis, mais cette fois-ci, filmé en Panavision à s’en décoller la rétine. (Afterimage)

"Father Knows Best meets Pink Flamingos... a post-punk soap opera about an Asian American family that single-handedly shatter the clean-cut, hard-working image of the model minority.” (New York Daily News)

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Plays with the short film:
DER ELVIS
Jon Moritsugu | USA 1987 | 23min.

Made by Moritsugu in 1987 as part of his thesis project at Brown’s Semiotics Department in an act of pure pop regicide, it depicts The King as a monstrous freak. “Stuffed with a mix of multi-media regurgitation and live footage,” Jack Stevenson writes, “it resembles a cut-and-paste punk fanzine more than a movie… Elvis fans who unwittingly attended screenings, as they did in Arhus, Denmark, were outraged.”

“One of the top 50 movies of the 1980's" (The Village Voice)

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