死亡艺术

Underground Cinema first appeared in the 1960s with groundbreaking works by filmmakers as Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Andy Warhol, whose films dealt with provocative subjects such as politics, sex, magic and death. ADORATION (Olivier Smolders, Belgium/1987) is the true story of a Japanese man s love crazed obsession for a woman, which ends in cannibalism. PIG (Nico B, USA/1999), a poetic film in which we see the subconscious of a killer transform into abstract forms and material, all deriving from his suffering and desperation. HOLLYWOOD BABYLON (Nico B, USA/2000), an homage to Kenneth Anger s Hollywood Babylon, shot at the Museum of Death, Ca. LE POEM (Bogdan Borkowski, France/1986), an actual autopsy of a human body accompanied by the poem The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud