Dont Fence Me In ** SAVAGE WITCHES (Film // One To Watch)

The beauty of Underground Cinema is that it is driven by unpolitical and immediate needs and slides like a shooting star into dream worlds with no social boundaries. Savage Witches (co-directed by Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais) looks for the truth that comes with being a seeker.

The film proves what an unstoppable and uncompromising creative force the Fawcett & Pais team legitimately is. They are truly a transatlantic collective. Organizers of the The London & Porto Underground Film Festival's, editors of the influential One+One Filmmakers Journal and  co-directors CINE-REBIS. They are on fire.

Savage Witches tells the tale of Gretchen and Margarit, two misunderstood psychedelic school girls who would like to be able to play and float on a river forever and ever instead of working and adhering to their tyrannic school principals rules. 
They dress up and play fight, spit on what society thinks about their other worldliness, both looking like wild rabid carnival characters. Its cinematography is a kaleidoscope of HD, DV, Super8 and their favorite format VHS!

The film perfectly reflects what a prison society can often be like to a fertile young independent creative mind. How curiosity, imagination and craziness can often be put on trial.

Movie's such as Savage Witches follow a tradition similar to other maverick filmmakers like Věra Chytilová and Derek Jarman who tackled the teenage psyche in all it's anarchic glory.
Casting spells on all who watch these films, especially those in search of the magic that will set them free. Purified by the rain, following the arrows, slogans such as ''Let's destroy the World'' flash across the skies, erasing humankind and all its dead ideas and forgotten history. Tempting you to fly with them ** gimme your hands cause you're wonderful!!

Darkness + Silence

The duo are currently filming back to back projects The Kingdom of Shadows and Black Sun.
''Making a movie is an amazing thing, it’s magic! We never suffer from writer’s block or a lack of ideas, we are interested in so many things and there never seems to be enough time to do them all''.  

Savage Witches is a film that wants to burst out of the screen and cross over into life, to have the vision and experience of the world enriched and transformed by the artifice of cinema.
But when is too much freewill considered dangerous? When does freedom become manipulated and sold to the masses? 

Respectively a film like Savage Witches will never have that problem.
History is dead, long live infinity.  

For more info Visit: http://theundergroundfilmstudio.co.uk/

The Future of Cinema with Fabrizio Federico

I hope that Black Biscuit gets into peoples skins. It’s an important film because this is rebel talent unlike any other.

I feel like Im the best director in the world even though I don’t know how to use a HD camera.                  Cinema’s  attitude is basic  so I’ve decided  to liberate it and take it to the next level.

I cant be tied down to one ideal, my style is screen  poetry stirred up with documentary, satire on ‘’real-acting’’, comedy, horror, and experimental fiction mixed with the unknown.

 It makes me laugh and shrug when critics get it wrong; which is more than half the time, that is the reason why I believe critics should stop writing about films and start making them.  Don’t be a critic become a creator.

They should stop being lazy. All they do is sit around and watch movies all day, I mean that isn’t going to get you laid. Put your so called ‘’expertise’’ to good use, because they  are missing out on the  ultimate experience.

Art is the greatest purity because you're  asking the viewer to choose their personal nirvana. It’s one of the best highs I’ve ever felt, and I’ve relished lots of special experiences such as love/sex, out running the cops, being on stage, instant togetherness and the occasional out of body experience.

We have to stop creative prejudice in the arts, the other big culprit of this crime other than the critics are the cinema owners. They don’t take enough chances. If a film doesn’t look safe enough they will refuse to promote the work, and eventually just bury it.

But now thanks to the internet we no longer need these middlemen. They are going to become an extinct species,  but for the moment  all they have going for them is that artists are a bit lazy when it comes to promoting and dealing with $$ figures. But that is changing very dramatically ,we’re learning. 

That goes for the high and low’s,  and Im saying it because nobody else seems to give a shit about hitting a creative edge and spreading the idea to future generations. 

In the early 70’s  for a short period of time creative film directors were treated with respect and independence. Just give us the fucking money and we will create an alternative experience for audiences swim in.

That’s why I have so much respect for Dennis Hopper’s ‘’The Last Movie’’ because that film treated the audience as equals, and his unhinged genius scared the suits.

Im not at home, but that doesn’t make me and my generation mad, we’re  just mavericks.

The Weinsteins & October Films in the early 90’s created cinema heaven for young directors. That’s when the  money men in the film industry were at their bravest. But I think they  got scared when they tip toed across,  and looked over the edge of their empire state building decision to make experimental cinema mainstream.

A creative open minded tsunami wave takes time to settle, and the greedy money men  can never manage to retain the balls to understand that  they should be promoting originality, and versatility  to audiences. If you promote they will come.

People will learn and feel more from watching reality over fiction.

The  experimental ideal  that Im talking about reached it’s pinnacle with the release of ‘’Kids’’ in 1995. That was a perfect moment. Creative freedom mixed with the big money of advertising.  

I don’t think it’s extreme. I have a young attitude so I expect people to be artistically braver.