It’s already one of the cult happenings of IndieLisboa. A screening that lasts all night long that proposes a more extreme trip around cinema, one that rips the boundaries of genre and themes, without any kind of taboos. Disconcerting films and fractured themes that one digests better during then night and which happen twice this year. This time around, there isn’t one but two Mouth of Madness Marathons.
In the first one, scheduled for May 4th, at Cinema Ideal, no taboo are left one: from the queer wrestling of Cassandro, el Exótico!, who gets on the ring with pink and shiny latex on, to the cowboys who tell stories around the bonfire about a killer Santa Clause (Chowboys: An American Folktale) and an evil dress that brings bad luck to its wearer (In Fabric), a cannabis vending machine (Tomatic) and a man who likes his abductors more than they like him (Braquer Poitiers). There are films for every taste, including a special fetish for eggs (Egg Touching).
In the second marathon, scheduled for Saturday, May 11th, at Cinema Ideal, we ask: What is the feminine capable of? And we answer: everything! In this set of films that run all throughout the night we get to know: Goldie (the instagirl known as Slick Woods) who wins all her daily battles; the friends who know how to have fun all night (Wine Wenches); the Goddess, primitive deity of humanity, who fights against the forces of patriarchy (Seder-Masochism); the possibility of creating the perfect lover with a 3D printer (Slug Life), and, finally Alexa’s emancipatory journey through a palace that hides forced aesthetic surgeries, oppressive surveillance systems, and a cannibalistic reality TV competition (Make Me Up).
MOUTH OF MADNESS I
4th of May, Saturday, 23:00, Cinema Ideal
Total Runtime: 296′
CASSANDRO, EL EXOTICO!
Marie Losier, France, doc., 2018, 73′
TOMATIC
Christophe M. Saber, France/Switzerland, fic., 2018, 20′
DOCKING
Trevor Anderson, USA, exp., 2019, 4′
FOOD CHAIN
Mari Kivi, Liis Kokk, Estonia, anim., 2018, 9′
BRAQUER POITIERS
Claude Schmitz, France, fic., 2018, 60′
CHOWBOYS: AN AMERICAN FOLKTALE
Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski, Canada, fic., 2018, 9′
EGG TOUCHING
Peter Millard, United Kingdom, anim., 2018, 2′
THE PROCEDURE 2
Calvin Lee Reeder, USA, fic., 2019, 3′
IN FABRIC
Peter Strickland, United Kingdom, fic., 2018, 118′
MOUTH OF MADNESS II
11th of May, Saturday, 24:00, Cinema Ideal
Total Runtime: 282′
A LA POURSUITE DU LAPIN BLANC
Meat Dept, France, anim., 2018, 3′
GOLDIE
Sam de Jong, USA, fic., 2019, 88′
GUY PROPOSES TO HIS GIRLFRIEND ON A MOUNTAIN
Bernhard Wenger, Austria, fic., 2019, 13′
WIJNWIJVEN
Esther Heerikhuisen, Holland, anim., 2018, 3′
SEDER-MASOCHISM
Nina Paley, USA, anim., 2018, 78′
LAVO
Sasha Svirsky, Russia, anim., 2017, 2′
CATERPILLARPLASTY
David Barlow-Krelina, Canada, anim., 2018, 5′
SLUG LIFE
Sophie Koko Gate, United Kingdom, anim., 2018, 7′
MAKE ME UP
Rachel Maclean, United Kingdom, exp., 2018, 85′