{"id":14389,"date":"2021-08-30T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2021-08-28T19:49:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T23:49:59","slug":"bertrand-mandico-shorts-2011-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14389","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Mandico shorts (2011-2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Boro in the Box<\/em> (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just watched some <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14387\">early Borowczyk<\/a> so I&#8217;m checking out Mandico&#8217;s terrific biopic.  It is so reverent of Boro&#8217;s wife\/actress, and so dismissive of Lenica.  A bit of Cronenberg there at the end when the camera becomes a living organ.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Memories of a Boobs Flasher<\/em> (2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elina L\u00f6wensohn solo show, repeats a four-minute monologue twice.  It&#8217;s good to see that Mandico has had the same interests from the beginning, and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12879\">The Wild Boys<\/a><\/em> feature didn&#8217;t come out of nowhere but was a culmination.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Prehistoric Cabaret<\/em> (2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely the most GuyMaddinist shit I&#8217;ve ever seen, GuyMaddiner than some Guy Maddin films, but still with some Cronenberg edge.  These are not complaints, this is what movies should be doing.  The Boro camera reappears.  More dialogue repetition, this one&#8217;s about a camera that is inserted into the body.  In color and English, wild.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Depressive Cop<\/em> (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A different sort of thing, in English again and partly filmed like a grey VHS dupe.  More of those obsessions, merging with islands and becoming fruit\/crab\/milk.  Aphex Twin t-shirt cameo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Blow Up, Le Cri dans l&#8217;\u00c5\u201cil<\/em> (2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget Lynch in our list of influences.  This is simply a montage of some of the best screams and yells and shouts in modern cinema, which keeps returning to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2207\">Wild at Heart<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/mandicosh8.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boro in the Box (2011) Just watched some early Borowczyk so I&#8217;m checking out Mandico&#8217;s terrific biopic. It is so reverent of Boro&#8217;s wife\/actress, and so dismissive of Lenica. A bit of Cronenberg there at the end when the camera becomes a living organ. &#8211; Memories of a Boobs Flasher (2014) Elina L\u00f6wensohn solo show, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2509,91,21,743],"class_list":["post-14389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-bertrand-mandico","tag-filmmaking","tag-shorts","tag-walerian-borowczyk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14425,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14389\/revisions\/14425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}