“Comfort Girls” is a 5-minute short film. The “Comfort Girls” initially appear in a Japanese garden in traditional Korean garb and sing before military officers of nations that have shaped the fate of a divided Korea. The officers sit at a table to a feast ravenously and disgustingly devouring food. The traditional quickly disappears andContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: A Freebie from the Visual Communications Archives: “Comfort Girls””
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RKS 2024 Film: “I Used to be Funny”: A Filthy Snake in the Grass Bites a Comedian: Absolute Naturalness
The Canadian film titled “I Used to Be Funny” seems incompatible with the progression of the film but hints and innuendos are dropped along the way Hansel and Gretel fashion that taunt the viewer to determine why comedian Samantha Cowell (Rachel Sennott) is no longer funny as at the outset Sam is funny dropping oneContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “I Used to be Funny”: A Filthy Snake in the Grass Bites a Comedian: Absolute Naturalness”
RKS 2024 Film: “The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed”
Ann (Joanna Arnow) is just north of thirty living in Brooklyn, New York. She is living and speaking in a monotone. There is little joy, excitement and vibrancy in her life. A string of alienating BDSM relationships. A numbing corporate existence that awards her a one-year award when she has been an employee for three.Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed””
RKS 2024 Film: “Population Purge”: The Story That May Not Be The Story You Think
Sometime in the future the United States government initiates a population purge in its population management programme. The governmentally introduced virus is genetically engineered to spare a relatively small group; those with AB+ blood. The few survivors of the governmental purge only survive with transfusions of AB+ blood. The government issues transfusion cards for “legalContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Population Purge”: The Story That May Not Be The Story You Think”
RKS 2024 Film: “One Must Wash Their Eyes”: In the Twilight Zone of Here and There
You may leave your country and physically be in Canada and in this case Sahar (Pegah Ghafoori) has left Iran to pursue her studies in Vancouver, British Columbia but her mother remains behind. Sahar is far from a perfect example of a women the ayatollah theocracy blesses and without headscarf would she be the nextContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “One Must Wash Their Eyes”: In the Twilight Zone of Here and There”
RKS 2024 Film: Could This Be the Most Exciting Short Made? High Class Excitement at a Discount Price: “The Pickup”
“The Pickup” is an enticing short full of high-speed chases, crashes, satire and excitement. Operative Alpha (Xenia Leblanc) is entrusted to deliver a metal suitcase by a high-tech control centre. The fate of the United States rests with its successful delivery. Some bright light at the control centre has ordered an Uber X for theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Could This Be the Most Exciting Short Made? High Class Excitement at a Discount Price: “The Pickup””
RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm
In this American short directed by Zao Wang, Eva (Kahyun Kim) and her boyfriend Peter (Craig Newman) are in the high-country hunting deer with Eva’s parents June (Maragret Cho) and Sam (Keong Sim). Peter is one of those self-sufficient as the world is ending believers so Eva killing and field dressing a dear carcass will,Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “A Family Guide to Hunting”: The Consequences of an Explosive Orgasm”
RKS 2024 Film: “Copa71”: Patriarchy, Cash and Greed and the Great Forget
Copa 71 was the first women’s football world championship held in Mexico in 1971. It was scorned by FIFA in its true patriarchal view of football. It was not recognized as a “true championship” even by the Women’s Football Association of England. In 1921 the English Football Association stated any of its members that permittedContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Copa71”: Patriarchy, Cash and Greed and the Great Forget”
RKS 2024 Film: “New Wave”: Vietnamese Escape Artists Groove to the New Wave
Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai weaves an interesting documentary on California’s Vietnamese New Wave craze and the disaffection of many Vietnamese “refugees” that fled to California after the fall of South Vietnam. Ai prefers to call Vietnamese fleeing the communist regime as “escape artists”. Ai was abandoned by her mother being raised by an aunt and herContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “New Wave”: Vietnamese Escape Artists Groove to the New Wave”
RKS 2024 Film: “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”: A Photographic Grand Queen
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955) is the subject of a documentary shortly to be released in United States theatres entitled “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”. His story is recounted by a former lover, art historians, museum curators, former models, family members, former employees, film directors, gallerists and most importantly his photographs and correspondenceContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes”: A Photographic Grand Queen”
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