OFFSCREEN ON TOUR 2019 | Offscreen
A selection of several films at different locations.
SUPER MARIO BROS.
Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo play Brooklyn plumbers who have to rescue Princess Daisy from a parallel dimension called Dinohattan, ruled by Dennis Hopper as a T-Rex in human form. Goombas and Bob-ombs galore in a lo-tech live-action version of the Nintendo game, directed by the creators of "Max Headroom".
ACE ATTORNEY
The Capcom video game gets a live-action makeover from Takashi Miike in family-friendly mode. Tongue-in-cheek courtroom fun, with wacky cartoon hairstyles, as rookie attorney Phoenix Wright defends a young spirit medium accused of battering her sister to death with a clock shaped like Rodin's The Thinker.
THE WOLF HOUSE
Maria runs away from a German cult in Patagonia and seeks refuge in a house in the menacing forest. The stop-motion images keep morphing before your very eyes in this beautiful but unsettling Chilean animation in which pigs sprout hands or people dissolve into streaks of paint.
KILLING
An untested young ronin, living among farmers, must protect them from marauding outlaws. What at first may seem a surprisingly conventional small-scale chambara from the director of "Tetsuo" develops into a subversive critique of the samurai code, with Tsukamoto himself in the role of sage elder swordsman.
KILLING
An untested young ronin, living among farmers, must protect them from marauding outlaws. What at first may seem a surprisingly conventional small-scale chambara from the director of "Tetsuo" develops into a subversive critique of the samurai code, with Tsukamoto himself in the role of sage elder swordsman.
RUN LOLA RUN
To avoid the worst from happening to her boyfriend, Lola has only 20 minutes to collect the sum of 100,000 German mark. The narrative structure of this modern version of "Bonnie & Clyde" is miles away from the Hollywood thriller but more reminiscent of that of a video game.
NEKROMANTIK
Buttgereit's taboo-busting feature-length debut, shot on Super8, was hailed by John Waters as "the first ever erotic film for necrophiliacs." Rob and his girlfriend Betty form a ménage-à-trois with a rotting corpse, but when Rob gets fired from his job, Betty leaves him – and takes the corpse with her.
SHORTSCREEN
For the annual Shortscreen program, Offscreen and website Kortfilm.be present a selection of recent short films that fit the Offscreen criteria: original, unusual, bizarre, and surprising. The films will be introduced by the filmmakers.
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