This four-part documentary manages to convey a few things, one being that the suspect (who has since pleaded guilty) is nuts, and second that most of the people involved with publicizing the case are nuts.
1 CommentTags: cinema, documentary, rex heuermann, serial killers
Few entities have been as metal as Mad Magazine, which started with the notion that most people are insane and in denial, which makes for absurd comedy as humanity collides with reality. Although this came about seventeen years before Black Sabbath, it shared a sensibility.
3 CommentsTags: documentary, film, mad magazine
If you want a gentle introduction to the Cambridge Five spy scandal which effectively gutted the upper classes of Britain and savaged the faith of its ordinary citizens in the Establishment, consider The Real Spies Among Friends, a documentary of psychology as much as spycraft.
76 CommentsTags: cambridge five, documentary, espionage, film
Apparently emerging from a podcast done by lead writer Mike Schiff, this documentary concerns the parallel lives and interwoven fates of heavy metal music and horror films, making a good case that people who do not buy into society’s nonsense tend to choose a path where power is more desirable than safety and popularity.
15 CommentsTags: alice cooper, anthrax, documentary, film, Heavy Metal, horror movies, iron maiden, king diamond, megadeth, metallica, mike schiff, the ramones
Ostensibly this movie fights the doomed free speech fight against the FBI categorizing fans of rap-rock group Insane Clown Posse (ICP), known as “Juggalos,” as members of a gang; more accurately, it looks into the ICP phenomenon and why it appeals to the growing group of dispossessed in America.
17 CommentsTags: aclu, documentary, faygo, fbi, insane clown posse, juggalos, movie, nu-metal, rap rock
After spending years analyzing political propaganda and bad philosophy, you might think that manipulation reveals itself like flatus in an elevator, but it does not. You get lulled in, doze off in your inner critical faculty, and then suddenly wake up screaming once the horror becomes too real.
29 CommentsTags: documentary, movie
Chronicling the later years of black metal, Blackhearts explores a world of those trying to uphold the spirit of a world that has passed them but which they find more relevant than what surrounds them, appearing both chronically lost and less mechanical and oblivious than the world around them.
16 CommentsTags: Black Metal, documentary, from the vastland, keep of kalessin, luciferian, naer mataron
Coming from a pair of death metal community veterans, new documentary The Growl looks into death metal as it was, and whatever is left as Generation X and newcomers try to continue the tradition.
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Aaron Aites, best known for his documentary work on black metal (the aforementioned Until the Light Takes Us) was recently diagnosed with kidney cancer. He and his partner Audrey Ewell have put up a GoFundMe page in order to raise money in order to treat it. If you’ve found any value in Aites’ work, like several of the contributors to DMU have, then you might want to contribute some money. Besides the aforementioned Until the Light Takes Us, Aites has also produced some other documentaries and films, and released lo-fi pop music through a band named Iran. Furthermore, you can read DMU’s interview with Aaron and Audrey here.
1 CommentTags: aaron aites, Black Metal, cancer, crowdfunding, documentary, gofundme, until the light takes us
When we last checked in on Blackhearts, the upcoming documentary was halfway through filming, and the creators were optimistic about a 2015 release. The filming is done, and they have started a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo with the hopes of paying for the costs of post-production and marketing. As of this writing, interested backers have 31 days to contribute funds. A wide variety of rewards are being included, ranging from early access to the finished film, to memorabilia from various famous black metal musicians, to (amusingly enough) one of the producers selling shares of his immortal soul. Let’s hope that doesn’t backfire on him.
Blackhearts purports to offer a new perspective on modern black metal, as it follows three fans from around the world (Iran, Colombia, Greece) instead of merely rehashing the scene’s founding myths. In the words of its crowdfunding campaign, “It explores how a music scene develops across religious, cultural and political lines, and provides comic relief on the things humans say, think and do when hijacked by passion.”
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