The Null Device

Film Festival: Tonight I went to see two films; firstly, I saw Before Night Falls, the alleged CIA propaganda piece about the gay Cuban poet persecuted by Castro's regime. It was OK in places (Johnny Depp's camp portrayal of the macho Communist apparatchik was one of the highlights), though meandered quite a bit in places and could have been made a lot more concise. Afterward, I saw Haxan: Witchcraft Through The Ages; this is a Swedish silent film about witchcraft, made in 1922, reenacting the witch hunts of the middle ages, and comparing the phenomenon to the "modern" medical phenomenon of hysteria. This was quite good; as it was a silent film, they had a DJ mixing various appropriately ominous ambient soundscape music on stage to the film (I recognised some of Shinjuku Thief's Witch trilogy pieces in places).

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