HIGH QUALITY VIEWING ONLY. A limited engagement from 2/3/09 - 2/23/09.
To all filmmakers who accept the limited, socially determined rules of clarity of
exposition, who think that films must use the accepted vocabulary to "convince," we
say, essentially: "You only work, whatever your reasons, whatever your presumed
'content,' to support and bolster this society. You are part of the mechanisms which
maintain stability through re-integration. Your films are helping to hold it all
together. And, finally, whatever your other descriptions, you have already chosen
sides. Dig: Your sense of order and form is already a political choice. Don't talk to
me about 'content' - but if you do, I will tell you that you cannot encompass our
'content' with those legislated and approved senses, that you do not understand it if
you treat it that way. There is no such thing as revolutionary content, revolutionary
spirit laid out for inspection and sale on the bargain basement counter." We want to
make films that unnerve, that shake assumptions, that threaten, that do not
soft-sell, but hopefully (an impossible ideal) explode like grenades in people's
faces, or open minds up like a good can opener.
- Robert Kramer
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HIGH QUALITY VIEWING ONLY. A limited engagement from 2/3/09 - 2/23/09.
To all filmmakers who accept the limited, socially determined rules of clarity of
exposition, who think that films must use the accepted vocabulary to "convince," we
say, essentially: "You only work, whatever your reasons, whatever your presumed
'content,' to support and bolster this society. You are part of the mechanisms which
maintain stability through re-integration. Your films are helping to hold it all
together. And, finally, whatever your other descriptions, you have already chosen
sides. Dig: Your sense of order and form is already a political choice. Don't talk to
me about 'content' - but if you do, I will tell you that you cannot encompass our
'content' with those legislated and approved senses, that you do not understand it if
you treat it that way. There is no such thing as revolutionary content, revolutionary
spirit laid out for inspection and sale on the bargain basement counter." We want to
make films that unnerve, that shake assumptions, that threaten, that do not
soft-sell, but hopefully (an impossible ideal) explode like grenades in people's
faces, or open minds up like a good can opener.
- Robert Kramer
Banned by YouTube, maligned by critics and never seen in its original form until now, THE VISITOR is a comic tour-de-force starring Gunnar Fritz Stansson as Ricky, a domineering, unruly house guest. The second chapter in the Unforgivable trilogy. Rated R for language and drug use.