INTERVIEW with filmmaker Birthday Gurl

What does your film express about today's generation? 

Nigga Booty Nights is about how  stereotype is more important than race and how the unborn stereotype is getting recognized for modern day slavery.

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

When I first saw the propaganda film behind the American holocaust I thought my life was over so I thought why not challenge my belief systems by making a film in the after math of this depression.

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?

I think its the perfect movement for unhealthy films, junk film, anti art art film and revolutionary for guerrilla DIY film makers all around the world.

Whats next for you?

I’m going to focus on my completing my screenplays  and work on my music.

INTERVIEW with Filmmaker Laurenz Mösbauer

 

 

What does your film express about todays generation?

the main character is - as some individuals of today´s generation; i ve heard - on a quest to find out how the hell he ended up awakening down on this awkward planet labeled earth. So he mounts his steed and tries to understand, observing the weirdness around him, trying to find his purpose.

Since there is no answer….

Make bubbles, not war!

Be Bubble Boy!

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

not sure what´s meant by social circumstances…. anyways…

first:

 

i just like the idea of: fuck it, lets do this

second:

the song was there first; came like a vision, then came the visualization.

3rd

Dad;

And his obsession to wrap things neatly in vast layers of bubble foil…

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema

well…

i do like shorts…

 

scripts do help sometimes…

anyways,

free minds, no boundaries, fuck conventions, we do agree!

Whats next for you?

Since this

http://www.jeannysnightmare.com/

is our musical and visual utopia, my focus now is on new music.

And there is gonna be new music released later this year! (Let s say fall. yes, fall should work!)

( feel invited here to the songs so far: https://jeannyhashadanightmare.bandcamp.com/

it s free, too

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INTERVIEW with filmmaker Dylan Greenberg

 

 

What does your film express about today's generation?

That the inner workings of people I feel have become far more complex and self aware which causes a clash between generations perhaps causing a rift in time that transposes the Millenial Mind (TM) to the Past Mind which truly I feel is what the Jazz is all about. 

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

I don't really know but I guess the ones that were there are the ones that influenced me. I think maybe it was the pictures on my wall.

 

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?

I think it's almost as exciting as "punk bass".

 

Whats next for you?

I just directed the new Amityville horror movie, and next I'm making the new ReAnimator movie. After that I want to do something more psychedelic although I think I'm gonna make the ReAnimator movie as psychedelic as I can. 

Thank you!

INTERVIEW with filmmaker Riccardo Cavani

What does your film express about todays generation? In order to answer, we must, first of all, ask 
 “What exactly is todays generation?” and that’s a really hard question. 

 What social circumstances lead you to make your new film? I don't make films, films make me. 

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema? I’d like to quote Jacques Derrida: “Between lying and acting, acting in politics, manifesting one’s own freedom through action, transforming facts, anticipating the future, there is something like an essential affinity: The lie is the future.” 

Whats next for you? Top secret.
 

See more at : http://riccardocavani.com


 

INTERVIEW with filmmakers Nick Toti & Matt Latham

 

What does your film express about todays generation?

I assume that I'm too old to be considered part of today's (or any) generation. If this movie says something about it, and that something came from me, it was either an act of divine Grace, a manifestation of collective, unconscious will, or a mistake. 

On the level of plot, there is an anxiety caused by the relationship between one's personal history and current circumstances. This, in the movie, connects to themes of transcendence (or attempted transcendence) and a literal Second Coming of Christ in the form of a pseudo-Buddhist-avant-garde-theatre-performer and her supernaturally omnipresent cult of followers/collaborators. In reality, this could be seen as a metaphor for something like Twitter or ISIS.

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

Matt Latham, my co-writer and the movie's director/editor/cinematographer, put together a group of actors with no knowledge of what the movie was going to be. All anyone knew was that it would involves the phrases "you are your body" and "you are not your body." Not long after this, Matt asked me to join the group as producer and co-writer. At the time I was going through a divorce and eager for anything that could distract me from it, so I dove right in.

This group had a shared facebook page where we shared ideas, pictures, videos, songs, etc. From this stream of media certain images and themes started emerging. We took this material and started developing characters with the actors. Eventually Matt and I locked ourselves up for a few days and came out with an outline for the movie. The script itself was written as we went along and revised constantly as we rehearsed and shot.

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?

I don't really know anything about the PINK8 Manifesto. I just read it for the first time. I like lists of rules, but I tend to make them up for myself so I probably would never adopt someone else's.

My friend Zachary Oberzan makes movies that seem to fit these rules and I think he's the best filmmaker around.

If "punk cinema" means "movies where people vomit on camera," then I'm as punk as it gets.

Whats next for you?

Matt and I just finished a documentary I directed about punk bands and megachurches called The Complete History of Seattle. After that, I'm re-editing DW Griffith's Intolerance to include scenes of hardcore pornography and starting work on a ten-part documentary based on the Ten Commandments.

Matt is currently in Norway finding locations for our next narrative feature, a horror movie titled The Blood The Blood The Blood The Blood The Blood.

All our movies can be found at www.interestingproductions.org as well as our blog which I update weekly with things very few people care about. It's the best thing on the internet.

INTERVIEW with filmmaker Yiorgos Bakalis

What does your film express about today's generation?

An underground artist and a DIY production is a mix of a generation in crisis ,here in Athens...here in Greece . We chose to shoot in the centre of Athens and we see all the atmosphere of a society in crisis

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

The social crisis is always in my films .  Always against racism, fascism, sexism  and social injustice.

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?

I believe that the community of people is what we need...  filmmakers who be together and express not only themselves but a community...

Whats next for you?

I write a script for a feature film and i am in a pre-production for a DIY film dance .

INTERVIEW with filmmaker Kelly Hughes

 

 

 

What does your film express about today’s generation?

 

My movie predicted today’s generation.

 

I wrote and directed the uncut version of La Cage aux Zombies in 1993. Before drag went mainstream. Before zombies made a comeback.

 

Back then it would have been impossible to imagine shows such as RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Walking Dead. Even harder to imagine them being mainstream hits.

 

Today’s generation thinks they are subversive. But in reality, they like cute and shiny fake kink and safe thrills. My movie challenges this generation by keeping drag queens and zombies in the gutter. Forcing the viewer to bathe in filth when they watch my movie.

 

 

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?

 

In my recent Director’s Cut, I mercilessly hacked away at my precious footage to accommodate today’s short attention span ADHD consciousness. But knowing young people will be watching my movie on an iPhone makes me want to weep.

 

 

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?

 

My favorite part of the PINK8 Manifesto is:

 

Look for street superstars to be your cast.

 

It’s a treat to work with a trained actor. They’re usually good at remembering lines. But there’s a certain thrill in working with amateurs. Especially if they have a unique look. And no inhibitions.

 

I’ll work with just about anybody once. And if they submit to my direction without question, I’ll probably work with them again. There’s a certain magic when a seven foot tall drag queen goes through the metal detector at an airport for you without hesitation. So if some stranger off the street is willing to get arrested by working in my movie, then yes, he will be cast.

 

As for punk cinema…

 

I still embrace a Do-It-Yourself aesthetic. No use waiting around for budget or permission.

 

But to me, the heart of punk cinema is all about the primal scream. Finding that pure loud expression. A sound, an image or a cumulative effect that pierces the viewer. And that usually doesn’t happen by committee.

 

Answer to one person only—yourself.

 

 

Whats next for you?

 

Two web series.

 

SPANKY GOES TO HELL: A Queer Horror Punk-A-Doodle

A reality show about the former drummer of horror-punk band The Dead Vampires. Following him as he resurrects his zine and sells off his horror memorabilia on eBay while embracing veganism and animal rights with his husband and three dogs.

 

The Mephisto Box

A supernatural thriller about sex, drugs and Satan.

 

They’re both in the can. I just need to move my ass and edit them.

INTERVIEW with filmmaker Andrei Stefanescu

 What does your film express about todays generation?
My movies talk about our amazing direction towards non duality. Towards a very sincere spirituality without too much preciousness. A generation of amazing understanding and tolerance.

What social circumstances lead you to make your new film?
I made Beings in a totally new society from my own. With people that were all in an open underground lifestyle. I ran away from my social life to make my films. Ive always looked for outsiders for my projects. Mostly because my films deal with exploring outside unknown things.

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema?
All punk art movements have been such great forces forward, so I love that you've made it as a manifesto with great power and trottle :)
It will create great great vibes and who knows what will come out of it.  Thats what I love about punk. Its purely open to all things that come its way. All repercussions and reactions.

Whats next for you?
Next for me is an art-porn project. A collection of videos that are rooted in existential use of sexuality and body as metaphor. Our bodies are  sort of medium, as cinema is, they transform either matter either perceptions or consciousness in such an amazing complex way that i flet compelled to use it as a main theme and subject.
See more at redreturnproject.com

INTERVIEW with filmmaker Lucas Popowitz

What does your film express about today's generation?

Our lack of concern for our own sexual well being. So many people have sex without abandonment, that they forget about the consequences that can come with promiscuity. That and let's laugh at Douche bags.

 

What social circumstances lead you to make your film?

I had been a bit adventurous with the amount of sexual partners I had in my life. I was on a self destructive path that only seemed to have happiness along it's way when I was inside another woman. I had grown up with a little sister who was HIV positive and had always had knowledge of the disease around me. When I finally stopped being an idiot with my penis, I got tested, and lucky came up clean. But I always had thoughts in the back of my mind, "What if?" I took that what if and created a story with characters that I didn't want the audience to particularly like, but still felt sorry for them. 

 

What do you think about the PINK8 Manifesto & Punk Cinema

I've always described my style as Punk/Guerrilla. I don't like to follow traditional story structure rules, and always wanted to make films on my own terms. The Pink8 Manifesto sounds like the first ever punk documentary, which is so super fucking rad!

 

What's next for you?

I just launched my own production house with the star of my feature. It's called Feels Like Fiction and our website www.feelslikefiction.com is where we post articles we've wrote about pop culture and storytelling. As well as videos we've made ourselves and our "For Hire" skill set of writing, shooting, and editing. We have a few feature length scripts that I have completed writing that we are currently trying to narrow down a single one for our next production.