Actually, now that I think about it, I was probably giving myself too much credit. I don't think I am even capable of making something as sui generis as most of the objects that make up Cinema Brut. To make something unfathomably bad takes a certain kind of talent, in a way. My movie would be totally mediocre,…

I like to watch Cinema Brut because I like to be reminded of what would happen if I made a movie. This is what prevents me from making a movie and having other people make fun of me. That and the fact that I am lazy and unambitious, which is probably what prevents me from taking the plunge more than the fear that if I…

On a tangential note: Kiyoshi Kurosawa is the great forgotten filmmaker of the last 20 years and his Cure is a progenitor of these types of films. He saw it coming first. But then again, Japan and South Korea are living about 20 years ahead of us, so that shouldn't come as a surprise.

The absurd complexity of the networks and systems which control our daily lives are quickly taking on the appearance of a demonic force that cannot be controlled or bargained with, hence the shift in what we currently find terrifying. The next step is a return to texts which posit The Devil as the source our troubles.…