the cruel machine

Overview of films

• Peeping Tom

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  Michael Powell | 109' | United Kingdom | -

  English scandal film that abruptly ended the career of its maker is still effective. Crazy son of fear scientist kills and films in one fell…

• Pentimento

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  Frans Zwartjes | 78' | Netherlands | -

• A Prayer for Nettie

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  Donigan Cumming | 34' | Canada | -

  See After Brenda.

• Sequenzi di Morte

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  180' | -

  Young Sicilian video artist Alessandro Aiello shows a selection from his bizarre collection of cruel shots from Italian B-films, from Faces of Death t

• Shocking Peach

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  Wada Junko, Shirao Kazuhiro | 20' | Japan | -

• Sick

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  Kirby Dick | 90' | USA | -

  Documentary about the extreme performance artist Bob Flanagan. The nail hammered bloodily through his penis is already more notorious than the slice t

• The Sadeian Aesthetic: A Critical View

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  180' | -

  Well-known film connoisseur and theoretician Noël Burch, also a lover of dominant women, uses film fragments to criticise the Cruel Machine.

• Tragische magie

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  Henri de Maar | 13' | Netherlands | -

  Unsavoury naked old man rummages around in his gruesome laboratory.

• The Ugly

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  Scott Reynolds | 91' | New Zealand | -

  Virtuoso debut film in which the young New Zealand director manages to link the tension of a horror-thriller with the anxiety of a psychological drama

• Vienna, Sodom

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  Austria | -

  Critic and ex-Viennale director Alexander Horwath shows and explains the real violence of the Vienna Actionists.

• Violence in the Cinema (part 1)

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  George Miller | 20' | Australia | -

• Violence In the Movies

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  180' | -

  Connoisseur and critic of Asian cinema Tony Rayns motivates his choice of transgressional filming.