black comedy
Chatty Catties
For his debut feature film L.A. based artist and writer Pablo Valencia used his rather deranged imagination to risk making an extraordinary innovative black comedy that he almost manages to pull off. This story is of an aspiring filmmaker called Shelby who has more than her fair share of emotional issues and substance abuse and who talks her…
Cowboys
‘Cowboys’ is an oddball absurdist Croatian comedy that was such a hit at home it became the country’s official submission for an Academy Award Best Foreign Picture Nomination last year. It didn’t win anything but it did at least show the world what extraordinary filmmakers they are, and what a glorious bizarre sense of humor…
MENTAL
There is an hilariously funny opening sequence when the camera swoops down from the nearby mountains to spot Shirley, a suburban housewife on the verge of a breakdown, hanging out her washing in her garden whilst she recreates the beginning of ‘The Sound of Music’ that she is totally obsessed with. Her five daughters however…
Drool
An miserable downtrodden wife who lives in the middle of nowhere, ignored by her children, and abused by her aggressive slob of her husband, suddenly acquires a girl friend when a black cosmetics rep. moves in next door. The friend is banned from visiting cos this is the South after all (!) but when…
