From
today, 30 experimental and low-budget feature films and music videos
-billed as anti-art art films, punk
cinema, acid films and junk films - will be exclusively available
online for the first-ever Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival.
Supported
by Punk London, the festival aims to support avant-garde filmmakers
worldwide whose projects struggle
to reach the regular film festival circuit and over 100 films and music
videos were submitted to the organizers from all over the world.
Fabrizio, who originates from the UK and went on to travel the world, living
in Italy and America after surviving a house fire at 5 years old, says
an appeal was put out for spontaneous and rebellious films which
embodying an anarchic Punk Cinema ethos the test the limits and
boundaries of institutionalized filmmaking.
“I think the future of cinema lies on You Tube and online viewing,” he says. “We want to challenge the conventional
industry and give independent creative film makers a platform.
His
present works include Black Biscuit (2012) and Pregnant (2015) and he
is presently working on a documentary
about the new generation of Underground Filmmaker here in the UK.. He also the accidental founder
of the scandalous PINK8 film manifesto - a springboard for new
filmmakers to create their own micro-budget opus.
The
Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival runs from today to April 7. The
festival is advised for 18 year-olds and over and can be viewed at
