TEXAS GETS THE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF GOD'S LITTLE GIRL

Austin, Texas, to be precise. The Austin Fantastic Film Festival to be precisely precise. First screening is on September 21 2006 and a repeat screening is on September 25 2006. Both shows will be happening at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a venue we absolutely love in this neck of the woods. The film's page, along with screening times can be found here.

GOD'S LITTLE GIRL WORLD PREMIERE IN PARIS

Mitch Davis' long-in-post latest is about to be born, Sept 6 and Sept 8 2006 at the great Etrange Festival n Paris.  Shortly afterwards, in early October 2006,  the film will be playing in official competition at Spain's Sitges Film Festival. More info on both screenings to come soon!

READ A WOMBFUL OF REVIEWS FOR THE SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY DELUXE DOUBLE DVD SET!

As many of you know, the ever-brave Austrian art/horror label Sazuma released a skullfuckingly thorough 2-disc Special Edition dvd of SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY across their country, as well as in Germany, Switzerland and Holland. Sazuma’s set marks the first time that SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY has ever been available on DVD in its full version, free of infuriating censor cuts or optical fogging. As a result, this set has already found itself on the official Banned List in Australia! Sazuma’s release is jam-packed with goodness, including on-camera introductions by both Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis, the full 90-minute making-of doco A SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY CHRISTMAS (roughly 10 minutes of excepts from this appeared on the Japanese SUBCONSCIOUS disc), Davis’ DIVIDED INTO ZERO, Hussain’s LA DERNIERE VOIX (co-directed with Julien Fonfrede), a 10-minute unreleased track by sound designer David Kristian, and much more, right down to a 16-page booklet. We are still amazed that any company would be crazy enough to do this kind of release for our work, and thank Sazuma’s Roland Fauster, Lars Overburg and Niki Wurster for their dedication and madness. If you haven’t yet picked this baby (fetus?) up, you can order it directly from Sazuma here, or from within North American via the good subversives at Poker Industries or Xploited Cinema, among others. Just be forewarned: the disc is Region 2 PAL, so if you’re in North America, be sure that your player and display will be able to handle it.

Oh yes, the reviews - DVD Maniacs, Rumour machine, Cinetrange, Dread Central, DVD Verdict,
Bloody Disgusting, Arrow In The Head, Sense Of View (German), Online FilmDatenbank (German)
Scarred For Life (German), Das Manifest (German), Uncut.dk (Danish)
 

GOOPY SPASMS AT  THE CHICAGO UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

If you're in Chicago on August 23 2005, you could do worse than check out Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show at the ever-eclectic Chicago Underground Film Festival. Much thanks go out to Brian McKendry, Bryan Wendorf and Wendy Solomon (Wendy's no longer at the festival, but we still love her for championing Divided Into Zero back in the day) . Retinas and nervous systems will roll across the Music Box Cinema!

ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES PENNSYLVANIANS: GOOPY SPASMS IS HEADED FOR THE PHILADELPHIA FESTIVAL OF WORLD CINEMA

Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show will be getting its US Premiere at the Philadelphia Festival Of World Cinema on Thursday April 14, 9:45 PM  @  the Prince Music Theater as part of a collection of subversive animation christened "Not Your Saturday Morning Cartoon". Throbbing goopy thanks go out to fearless fest programmers Michael Enright &  Travis Crawford for being crazy enough to bring this thing to US soil in the midst of that country's not-quite-open-minded climate towards sexual anythings. This should be interesting.

SO YOU WANNA BUY INFLICTION MERCH?

No, no, not the films (although there's a deluxe German double disc ultrabit DVD set of Subconscious and Zero coming in early 2005 - more on that soon!), but for those who you who felt that those Sunday dinners or dates to the prom were never quite complete without your very own Subconscious Cruelty or Divided Into Zero T-shirt, your questionable prayers have been answered. Behold, The Infliction Films Online Shoppe. New merch will be added over time, including mana for Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show. Let us know what you think. As for the actual films, we're working on making them available in North America. There are always the releases from Japan & Portugal and in the upcoming months, the films will be out in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Holland, but when it comes to North America,  it's a slow process. A.  Very slow. Process. 

SPAIN SPASMS SITGES 

That's right, Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show has two dates at Spain's legendary Sitges Film Festival. On December 5 and 6, Trembles' revelatory ripcord will unspool before mortified Spanish retinas, in the official Animation competition no less. Special thanks to Angel Sala!

CHECK OUT IKONEN MAGAZINE'S INTERVIEW WITH MITCH DAVIS 

Germany's eclectic  Ikonen Magazine have recently begun adding English language content to their website, featuring original language versions of English interviews they've conducted which until now, have only been available to readers in German language translations. Pound-click here to read their interview with Mitch Davis, entitled "Transgressive Cinema From Canada". While you're there, browse around a while and explore the other pages. There is much to be discovered. 

SUBCONSCIOUS EDMONTON,  GOOPY SWITZERLAND AND SPASMS ACROSS VANCOUVER

Head's up friends, Subconscious Cruelty is slated to screen at the wonderfully-titled Return To Odd Film Festival in cozy (?) Edmonton, Alberta. Searing Xenon light will blast through its frames on Wed Oct 27, 9 PM at the big daddy repertory Metro Cinema. Amen. Also, Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show has two October screenings coming up: Switzerland gets the European Premiere  Oct 14 and 16 2004 at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (which will also be featuring live performances from incredible acts like Whitehouse and Merzbow) and Vancouver's stellar Cinemuerte Film Festival  throbs out with the Canadian West Coast Premiere on Friday October 29, at midnight. Batter up!

INFLICTION JOINS FORCES WITH UNDERGROUND CARTOONIST RICK TREMBLES 

 Those of you familiar with Rick Trembles' highly personal hallucinatory comic book work and film journalism will *still* be stunned senseless when you encounter the man's pulsating journey into filmmaking. Behold, Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show (Goopy Spasms for short, because we know how popular long film titles are with listings people!), an experimental, semi-autobiographical cartoon addressed as a living, gooping slide-show depicting the artist's preoccupations with orifices, fluids, cross-dressing and...a few fetishes. Much focus is given to how these obsessions have impacted upon his relationships, lending the film an unclassifiable tone that strikes somewhere between screwball self-deprecation, gross-out comedy and anguished melancholia, an abrasively honest tragi-comedy the likes of which are seldom explored. Goopy is based on Trembles' infamous early 90's comic "How Did I Get So Anal" (originally self-published in Sugar Diet #2, where it managed to alarm no less an authority on alarming  comic art than Robert Crumb!) and its subsequent slide-show performance piece. Trembles wrote, directed, edited and animated the film. He also stars in the live-action footage, performed much of the soundtrack with his post-punk band The American Devices and spoke the voice-over narration. Producing duties were split between Trembles and Mitch Davis. Rick Trembles' Goopy Spasms Live Cartoon Show had its World Premiere screening this past July in Montreal at the FanTasia Film Festival, where it was received with deafening cheers and applause. It's next screening will be in Switzerland, Oct14 and 16 2004 at the Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival. After that, it will have it's Canadian West Coast Premiere at Vancouver's Cinemuerte Film Festival, where it will screen on Friday October  29 @ midnight, opening for the fantastic Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat In Space.  Also worth mentioning here is the fact that FAB Press have recently published an extraordinary collection of Trembles' highly unique comic book film reviews in a volume titled Motion Picture Purgatory. It can be had for as little as $12 USD at Amazon and is a must for film fans, comic freaks, cultists, fetishists, lovers of the unusual and every self-respecting bookshelf. 

READ CHAOTIC ORDER'S INTERVIEW WITH MITCH DAVIS

As the world is still waiting for Britain's Chaotic Order Magazine to establish a full online presence, we've transcribed Bob Smith's interview with Mitch Davis from C.O. #14  and thrown it up for you here. The mag's contact info appears at the bottom of the page and we recommend you check it out.  

INFLICTION NIGHT AT THE WARHOL MUSEUM

Pittsburgh denizens will get a blessed opportunity to see both Subconscious Cruelty and Divided Into Zero on the big screen courtesy of the always-adventurous Andy Warhol Museum. The two films will screen back to back on the hallowed eve of March 7 2003. Flickering thanks go out to the divinity of curator Greg Pierce. Hit the museum's site for further info.

SUBCONSCIOUS AND ZERO RETURN TO ROME

Organizers of the Underworld Film festival are putting on Fatal Visions - not the 80's mini-series, nor the late, great Australian 'zine, but a one-night block of screenings consisting of highlights from their last festival. For the cost of one admission, viewers will be able to see Subconscious Cruelty, Divided Into Zero, Benoit Boucher's Flat-N-Fluffy and Douglas Buck's assaulting pair of instant-classics Cutting Moments and Home, all on a single bill seemingly programmed by the devil himself! It all goes down at the incredible Detour Cinema , Sunday March 9 2003 @ 9 PM. If you happen to live in Rome, get yourself down to Via Urbana 47a and thank Detour / Underworld programmer Riccardo Ponis for bringing you Fatal Visions; The First Motion Picture Screening Block Rated V For Value!

NEW INTERVIEW WITH MITCH DAVIS                       

If you haven't been over to the Sex & Guts website yet, stop dragging your feet! A demonically down-in-it venture between author / playwright / journalist Gene Gregorits and post-punk performance artist / actress / photographer / musician / writer / Goddess Lydia Lunch, S&G has quickly become one of the more interesting counter-culture film / music / everything sites on the web, not to mention a major league supporter of Infliction Films. Check out Gregorits' unbelievably extensive interview with Mitch Davis and also be sure to hunt down issues of the infamous cult magazine (a full-on book is coming soon!) that started it it all. 

DAVID KRISTIAN ON SOUND DESIGN

Besides composing haunting themes and releasing countless albums and singles, electronic guru David Kristian has done unforgettable sound design work on every Infliction production to date, along with a bevy of other films including Entropy 1, Otaku and of course Ascension and La Derniere Voix. If you visit his site regularly, then you already know that he posted an essay on the mechanics of his sound designs. Those unfamiliar with Kristian's music must end this injustice immediately. MP3s are available and your life won't even begin approaching completeness until you've heard some of his brilliantly unique work which runs the gamut from Experimental Soundscapes to Electro,  IDM and Drill & Bass that will lodge itself into your brain and stay there forever. Do it now. You'll thank us for it. 

DENVER WILL BE GETTING THE CRUELTY IT DESERVES

Thanks to programmer Chris May and The International Experimental Cinema Exhibition, American audiences will be finally have an opportunity to see a bona fide 35mm print of Subconscious Cruelty on the big screen. You read correctly: In the two years that SC has been playing the international festival circuit, not a single American venue dared to go near this film. The forthcoming Halloween night screening at T.I.E. will mark Subconscious Cruelty's official U.S. Premiere. October 31, Denver, Colorado. Venue details to be posted shortly. Hats off to a festival that still believes in taking risks. 

HAVE A LOOK AT JAPAN'S INSANE SUBCONSCIOUS TRAILER

Albatros / New Select have cut a mindblowing trailer for the Japanese release of Subconscious Cruelty. This thing is so sensationalistic that it actually makes the Infliction one seem subtle! Click here to make your modem scream.

INAUGURAL ISSUE OF UK MAG FEATURES A 4-PAGE INFLICTION SPREAD 

Beg cheat or steal to get your hands on the assaulting debut issue of Carl T. Ford's UNRATED MAGAZINE - a glossy, meticulously-designed British publication dedicated to the subversive and extreme modern horror film. When the cover of a magazine's inaugural issue features a still of Nica Ray from Douglas Buck's Cutting Moments, you know that you're entering rough waters. The magazine delivers on its promise, with articles on Buck, Larry Fessenden, Lech Kowalski and Michael Walker, among others, including ye olde Infliction folk. Surf on over to the mag's official site for ordering info, and be sure to drive your local counter-culture book shop crazy until they agree to stock it on their shelves. Nowadays more than ever before, these sorts of publications need your support if they are to survive beyond a handful of exciting issues. 

NEW FESTIVAL DATES IN SWITZERLAND AND ROME

Both Infliction productions will be making new appearances on the European festival circuit in the coming weeks.  Thanks to programmer Riccardo Ponis, Italian filmgoers will get a chance to see both Subconscious Cruelty and Divided Into Zero at  The Underworld Film Festival on Friday May 31. Make your way over to Rome's Detour Cinema and let us know what you think. Swiss audiences will get their first chance to see the films in early June, in official competition at the great Lausanne Underground Film Festival, courtesy of programmer Julien Bodivit. The festival will be held at La Cinematheque Suisse, Zinema, and TheatreSevelin 36. 

Three years after the completion of Divided Into Zero, Mitch Davis is in Post-Production with a new short film God’s Little Girl. A surrealistic drama / horror,  GLG documents the dream-like breakdown of a religious single mother coming to terms with the death of her infant daughter. She becomes convinced that there is a distinct absence of genuinely good souls in heaven, and theorizes that her god must have been so impressed with her unquestionably pure daughter that he / she / it grew impatient and took the child to heaven right away. Realizing the full implications of such a philosophy, she grows terrified of dying young herself and begins to strive towards a series of changes in order to undo the transgressions of her past. Davis Wrote, Co-produced and Directed the film. Karim Hussain was DP, Patricia McNeil wove fantastical Art Direction, Philippe Spurrell came on as Co-Producer and C.J. Goldman handled Special Make-Up Effects. As per Infliction tradition, David Kristian is composing the score and creating an ambient Sound Design that will chill your blood. A day of inserts was shot with Sadisinfectenz / Mister E. director Gulia Fratti doing brilliant work as DP once Hussain was caught in the whirlwind of pre-production duties on Ascension. Actress Emma Sara (The Neighbor) stars and of course, it wouldn’t be an Infliction production without some sort of an appearance by Christopher Piggins. Eric Lavoie is currently editing the film with Davis. Projected running time is around the 17-minute mark and we’re hoping to have a 35mm festival print ready by the end of the summer. Click here to see a slew of photos from the film’s shoot.

Infliction regulars Philippe Spurrell, Mitch Davis and Christopher Piggins have signed on to record vocal performances for award-winning comic-shock animator Benoit (Flat-N-Fluffy) Boucher’s latest oddity A Fistful Of Science. More details as they become available.

BRACE YOURSELF FOR KARIM HUSSAIN'S 2nd FEATURE

Karim Hussain is currently in post-production with his 2^nd full-length feature film. It’s titled Ascension and the project could best be described as a highly unique horror / sci-fi / pitch black comedy that takes place in the near future, after society has been more-than-slightly altered by a bizarre phenomena that leaves everyone on earth with god-like powers over life and death, creation, destruction and rebirth. The bulk of the film’s running time will detail the exhausting journey of three women climbing up a surrealistically tall tower structure in a strange effort to finally lay waste to what remains of the world and possibly the universe. Hussain wrote, shot and directed the film, and also took on Co-Producer chores. Proving that there is justice in the cosmos, Hussain was finally able to work with a decent-sized budget, shooting for a month in 35mm with a full union cast fronted by Marie-Josée Croze (Maelstrom), Barbara Ulrich (Le Chat Dans Le Sac) and Ilona Elkin (Vampire High).  C.J. Goldman and Adrien Morot handled the rather elaborate Special Make-Up Effects, David Kristian composed the score and Sound Design, Patricia McNeil was Costume Designer and Eric Lavoie is cutting the film with Hussain. The film is being produced by Samuel Gagnon (Winter Lilly) and Hiromi Aihara (Tetsuo II) with Julien Fonfrede turning out chores as both A.D. and Associate Producer. Ascension is the first feature-length production from Gagnon’s new company Zuno Films, clearly a company worth watching. Info will soon be online at www.zunofilm.com . Cross yourself and watch for it.
 

Julien Fonfrede and Mitch Davis will be contributing chapters to Harvard professor Steven Jay Schneider’s forthcoming book Fear Without Frontiers; Horror Cinema Across The Globe, a volume that's promises to re-define the term "essential".  Fonfrede will be supplying an interview with Japan’s anarchistic provocateur Takashi Miike while Davis will be turning in an interview with Thai filmmaker Nonzee Nimibutr . Other chapters will include Andre Barcinski on the career of Jose Mojica Marins, Nathaniel Thompson on experimental storytelling in Polish fantasy cinema, Jan Uhde on the films of Jan Svankmajer, Donato Totaro on the Italian zombie film, Rebecca & Samuel Umland on the Scandinavian horror film, Pete Tombs on Indian horror cinema, Gary D. Rhodes on the 1930's Mexican horror cycle, David Kalat on France's horror heritage, Pam Keesey on the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky and much, much more. Go here for the full list of chapters and contributors.  Book will be published in 2003 by Britain’s FAB Press in both hardback and paperback editions.
 

SUBCONSCIOUS AND ZERO BUST OUT IN PORTUGAL

Cinema Novo’s split cassette release of Subconscious Cruelty and Divided Into Zero was officially launched at the 2002 Fantasporto Film Festival. Both films are uncut, English language, subtitled in Portuguese. PAL format.  For more info on this and other phantasmagoriphic Cinema Novo releases, click on over to their official site. If you’re a real glutton for gratuities, click here to see photos of the distribution contract being signed at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
 

READ NONE SO VILE'S INTERVIEW WITH KARIM HUSSAIN AND MITCH DAVIS

This one hit the streets back in August 2001. For those of you allergic to paper (or too cheap to spend any), we've uploaded an environmentally-friendly version of the article here.
 

READ AN EXTENSIVE GERMAN INTERVIEW WITH MITCH DAVIS

IF YOU REALLY CAN'T WAIT FOR CRUELTY...

American genre specialty DVD retailers Diabolik DVD are now stocking the Japanese Subconscious Cruelty disc as an import. Be aware that you will need a region-free player to watch it as it’s encoded for R2 playback. At least it’s NTSC, so you won’t have to be worrying about transcoding issues. As is customary in Japan, the more extreme genital shots have been optically fogged but the disc is otherwise uncut. It’s selling at $49.95 USD at www.diabolikdvd.com
 

Infliction regular Patrick Tremblay has launched a website dedicated to micro-budgeted DIY genre filmmaking. You’ll find tips, stories and tech notes as well as information on Tremblay’s own short films and while you’re there, be sure to read his journal entries from the set of Karim Hussain’s Ascension. What are you waiting for?
 

FEAR FROM FINLAND: DOWNLOAD A STREAMING VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH KARIM HUSSAIN & MITCH DAVIS

People in Finland really love saunas, strange alcohol that tastes like black licorice but will have you hallucinating before you can make fun of it and evidently, surrealistic horror films. While Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis were in town to host a double bill screening of Subconscious Cruelty and Divided Into Zero at Espoo Cine, they ended up doing a number of high profile television appearances and print interviews. Were the press really into these strange films or did they just have a lot of time on their hands? Incredibly and without exception, all were right on the level. Sonera Plaza’s Teemu Laaksonen has uploaded portions of his interview session online at http://fi.soneraplaza.net/kaista/cine/0,6127,178947,00.html, so do check it out. You’ll need to install Real Video to watch it, but you’ve done that long ago already, yes?

KARIM HUSSAIN CO-DIRECTS NEW SHORT FILM WITH JULIEN FONFREDE

SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY STREETS IN JAPAN

Subconscious Cruelty’s Japanese release through Albatros / New Select is about to hit the streets. Contrary to earlier reports, the supplemental section features an abridgement of the making-of documentary A Subconscious Cruelty Christmas running in the neighborhood of 17 minutes, and the North American theatrical trailer. The VHS streets on November 2, the DVD follows on November 20. Alabtros have designed an unbelievable campaign for the film, centered around CJ Goldman’s head sculpture of actor Christopher Piggins. In case you’re wondering, the Japanese title translates roughly to “Brain Division”. Have a look at Albatros’ wonderful wide website and marvel at the fact that Subconscious Cruelty is being released by the same company that’s putting out Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie!

SUBCONSCIOUS ZINE

Be sure to get hold of issue #2 of Quebec’s only horror zine None So Vile for a massive cover story on Subconscious Cruelty, featuring an interview with both Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis. NSV editor Kim Dubuisson also happens to run the horror news site Gorezone, through which you can order copies of the mag.

FINLAND GETS CRUELTY INTO ZERO

Fearsome news indeed, Espoo Cine’s terrorist programmer Tuomas Riskala has organized a double-bill screening of Subconscious Cruelty and Divided Into Zero for this year’s festival, and both Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis will be in town for the bulk of the event. If you happen to be in Scandinavia or better yet, in Finland, the dark date you should be scrawling onto your calendar is Friday August 24^th at the narcotic hour of 11 PM.  Check out the festival’s homepage for further programming info. While you’re at it, have a look at an English translation of an article that Riskala wrote about the two films.  A perfect double bill for the suicide capital of the world.

SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY GETS THEATRICAL RUN IN MONTREAL

Starting Friday April 13th (yes, Good Friday), Montrealers will finally get the opportunity to see Subconscious Cruelty bleed beauty and perversion across a hometown movie screen. The screen in question belongs to Cinema Du Parc, and the three week run will mark both the film's first North American appearance, as well as its World Theatrical Premier outside the festival circuit. Both Karim Hussain & Mitch Davis (also the theatre's resident cult programmer since 1999) will be on hand to introduce the midnight screenings on the 13th and 14th. Much thanks go to Parc Manager / repertory guru Don Lobel, for his endless bravery and support, as well as to cinema staffers Alex Wysocki Najar, Isabelle Racine, Derek, Richard, Denise, Craig and Julie, Matthew Hays and everyone else who helped to spread the wicked word.

SUBCONSCIOUS & ZERO HOOK PORTUGUESE VIDEO DEAL

After a huge sold-out double bill screening at Portugal's Fantasporto Film Festival, both Subconscious Cruelty and Divided Into Zero were signed for uncut video releases on the Cinema Novo label. The festival was reportedly swamped with requests for repeat screenings of the films, and before Fantasporto was over, Cinema Novo sprung a deal for the eventual release of both titles to the Portuguese video market. Other titles on the Cinema Novo label include Tuvalu, The Isle, Bad Taste, The Filth And The Fury, both Tetsuo features and the films of Jose Mojica Marins and Ivan Cardoso. Cinema Novo is also Portugal's #1 publisher of genre film related books, releasing volumes on such varied filmmakers as Terence Fisher, David Cronenberg, Harry Kumel, Paul Naschy, Steven Spielberg, Marco Ferreri, Jacques Tourneur and others. Needless to say, Infliction Films is thrilled to be associated with this truly amazing label. More details will be posted as they become available.

SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY SET TO BRUTALIZE BRUSSELS

The Brussels International Festival Of Fantasy, Thriller& Science Fiction Films has invited Subconscious Cruelty to Belgium. Karim Hussain will be attending the event, which will take place March 9-24, 2001. In a move underlining the diversity of the festival, this year's Jury will include Nicolas Roeg and HG Lewis. Wow.

SUBCONSCIOUS AND ZERO HEADING FOR PORTUGAL

Thanks to festival director Mario Dorminsky, Portugal's stellar Fantasporto Film Festival has invited both Infliction productions to screen in this year's event, which runs from February 23rd to March 3. Mitch Davis will be in town to host the two screenings and go ballistic during the festival's scheduled homage to Jess Franco.

DIVIDED INTO ZERO LANDS MUSEUM SCREENING

Proving that life is at the very least, as strange as fiction, Divided Into Zero has been selected to be screened in a bona fide museum - San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center Of The Arts, to be precise. The film will be featured in a special series entitled BAD TRIPS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN INDEPENDENT HORROR, and will screen on Friday February 23rd, at 8 PM. Other films in this series will include Eric Brummer's Debbie Does Damnation, Mark Hejnar's Jeffrey Dahmer doc Jeff, Nobuhiro Yamashita's Rotting Woman, Anthony Timpson's Crab Boy and Carey Burtt's unforgettable Psychotic Odyssey Of Richard Chase. The series was programmed by YBCA's Joel Shepard. If the name sounds familiar, then you must have been an avid reader of SF's amazing underground culture zine Your Flesh, to which Shepard regularly contributed articles.

GERMAN FILM MAG SCREENSHOT FEATURES EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MITCH DAVIS

The February issue of Germany's Screenshot Magazine features an extensive four-page interview with Mitch Davis, conducted by Daniel Schössler. Alas, it is printed in German, but in many ways, that makes it even more interesting. Click here to see the interview

SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY VIOLATES THE STOCKHOLM FILM FESTIVAL

Subconscious Cruelty took the Stockholm Film Festival by storm, playing two sold out late shows to enormous response, prompting the festival to add a special third screening, which sold out as well! Karim Hussain attended all three shows.

SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY HAS WORLD PREMIERE AT SITGES

On Thursday October 12, 2000, at 1 AM, Spain's Sitges Film Festival was home to the first ever public screening of Subconscious Cruelty. The screening played to a sold out crowd of over 600, eighty percent of whom stayed after the projection to hear Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis speak for a prolonged Q&A session. The single late night screening caused a considerable buzz at the festival, and Hussain and Davis were interviewed by a number of media, including Calle 13, the Latin American edition of HBO, and the Spanish edition of Fangoria Magazine, the latter of which will feature segments of the interview on a forthcoming CD Rom.