Earlier in his career, visual artist Shovlin revived a fictitious glamrock band, Lustfaust. For his first feature film, he goes to even greater lengths to fake a reconstruction of a 1970s slasher film, Hiker Meat: complete with hitchhiking heroine, charismatic commune leader and a group of teens who disappear one by one.
The constant switching between a pastiche and its own deconstruction results in what can be called a ‘metamentary’ – a mystification of both a feature film and its making-of documentary.
Those who liked the vintage look of Berberian Sound Studio will enjoy the many stylistic references. But they will need to activate their memories a lot more, as many key scenes are shot in the vein of older movies, although the references are only made explicit in the intertitles. Above all, Rough Cut is a vivid celebration of filmmaking as a group effort.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 90'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
