I just came back from the Isosceles Film Night at the Glow Bar; it was
quite interesting; this time, the films weren't drowned out by
the chattering of trendy idiots, as they were on
the first one (when a
bunch of tossers with expensive haircuts showed up, not invited by the
organisers).
They had some interestingly odd films. There was a cheerfully morbid
documentary about vampirism in nature, in which surrealist Jean Painleve
introduced a live guinea pig to a vampire bat (the guinea pig, twice the
size of the bat, just stood there as the bat licked its face and proceeded to
suck out its blood);
Thanksgiving, a stop-motion animation with a
creature made from an uncooked turkey carcass, its body cavity a gaping maw,
dragging itself around a house by the drumsticks, and
The Fly,
a meticulous Hungarian
animation from the point of view of a housefly; the sort of thing that seems
all the more impressive when you recall that it was done without computers;
not to mention a Winsor McCay classic from 1914 and an amusing Tex Avery
animation which opened the bracket.
I was also surprised to discover that I went to school with one of the people
running the film night; he's now a landscape architect and runs film nights
on the side.