Bizarre to me, is something
out of the ordinary.
Out of the usual.
It is something that
attracts attention powerfully.
Its something
different that can be low
quality too,
but not necessarily.
It's kind of eccentric.
It's kind of weird.
Eccentric, different.
Part of its motto for me too
is that it is uncomfortable.
Like when you're on a highway
and there is the shoulder.
Everything that goes
beyond the shoulder
into the abyss.
And what do you
do? Bizarre videos.
And the truth is we
could never define
well that was bizarre.
I relate bizarre to something
that makes me laugh.
I don't know if that's
what it means, but also
it could be something
related to terror.
A very particular monster...
Susana Gimnez dressed in
pear above Aconcagua,
makes me laugh,
I don't know why:
how bizarre, dude
I don't feel that it has a
negative connotation per se,
but it is simply something
that draws attention
for being different.
Same as the word bizarre
as if we agreed
which is becoming
more and more familiar.
20 years ago something
bizarre was not so
oooh, now bizarre
is everyday life.
But Argentina has bizarre things
and understands them very well
and uses them very well,
and is very self-conscious
about its bizarreness.
And that makes us
better than everyone.
It is the most bizarre
of the bizarre countries.
Because everything that can
everything that can go well,
goes wrong, it goes awry.
And yet we find
as a bit of a way to laugh.
Sometimes we should laugh less.
And it seems to me that perhaps
is it a defense
mechanism or this
when you say
If you are born in
Switzerland you miss this, well.
Just today I remembered when
When the pro-life march was made
on the July 9th Avenue, for example.
That was something bizarre.
But this exceeds
reality a little,
It's more like a
fiction, for example.
So I think that
we just got used to it...
We Argentines
love to complain and
We love to
be proud of our country
and at the same time
say that we are
the worst there is.
So anything that gives us
bizarre sensation, well
say: we are very bizarre.
But no, it is a completely
normal country.
I just say this
just to contradict
to everything that
others must have said.
Karinaaa!
You have to regret
what youve said.
No, I'm not going to...
How do you heal?
Jesus gave me an opportunity
They broke everything.
They broke
everything but oh well,
please look what's left.
With this I am
He is the only man in the world
who has two penises, right?
KARINAAAAA!
Once upon a time...
Self-awareness of
the bizarre comes from the TV.
I think it was TV
a very strong propagator
of the cosmos of
Argentine bizarreness.
The autopsy performed
by Chiche Gelblung
to the alien...who
at that moment
There was so little information
that one believed...
chose to believe.
Rodolfo Ledos No conviction!
One thing that was totally
something to be serious about,
but the guy had a way
to tell that it was bizarre,
that is, that of Luca Prodan
played by Luis Luque,
And for me, what
do I know, it's fine,
but it's bizarre,
what do I know.
Many people watched
Cha Cha Cha, for example,
I would say that Cha
Cha Cha is bizarre,
but it was on
free-to-air television.
So it was something
that everyone could watch.
see and today everyone says:
Ah, I used to
watch Cha Cha Cha
But you tell them: Let's
watch a bizarre movie
And they tell you: No way.
It's all very, very nebulous.
There was only that one,
or the one by Pipo Cipollatti,
were few.
But then television
In general it was
becoming bizarre
When ZAP TV started,
I think it's a great
milestone for television.
bizarre moment. For me,
It was true, everything
that happened there
I put my brain in soak
and was happy
those 40 minutes with
Polino, with Lafauci,
with the w*r on short sizes.
I mean, I don't remember.
many things in my life,
but suddenly if you bring ZAP TV
to my head...
It gives me like
a Rainman effect.
And well, bizarre cinema
I think the one who
installed it is Curubeto,
with his famous book.
Bizarre cinema
But on the one hand,
collecting information
about a kind of
cinema that I like
and on the other hand,
that this information
serve to revalue
a very underrated type of cinema
by the cultural establishment.
That book was very
important. Afterwards, well,
the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre
fantastic and bizarre cinema.
Fantabaires too
at the time
which gave rise
to bizarre cinema
and the first ones were made
screenings of Plaga
Zombie, I remember.
I remember that.
The Cinencuadre
from Mar del Plata...
Mar del Plata, El
Condor, Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires,
Condor, Mar del Plata.
The Cineclub La Cripta,
which was dedicated to projecting
movies in film.
The Cineclub Nocturna
It was called Ciclo
de cine bizarro,
which was aired
in CV Satellital
If I'm not mistaken, it
was the cable channel.
Hello friends! Once again
This is Cine
bizarro, the cycle
dedicated to liquefying neurons
of the few people who
are on the other side.
Lies, they know there are many.
Another spot was the video club
Splatter House,
where there, in addition
to get movies,
you could rub shoulders
with the filmmakers
of those movies
that they were
going to give them
to Jose Luis Gonzalez.
El pullover de la
madre de Jason
Excellent!
LSD Frankenstein!
La Cosa, fantastic
and bizarre cinema.
Martes del terror, which was
every Tuesday at the Pueyrredn Hall,
that many bizarre
movies were shown
Argentine and international.
I think if they tell me the word
bizarre they are telling
me about something that
It was done without thinking
if it was something marketable
whether it was something
mainstream or whatever.
It's like... maybe it's
I want this movie
to be seen only by a
few people.
Maybe it's intended that way.
What I think is
that it is a movie
which was probably done
using all available resources
and that the force,
let's say, that it drove her
It was like a very big passion.
The vast majority of the public
abhors that cinema
because he doesn't
understand it,
because it is not funny and
because it is not advertised
in the mass media
or in public places.
They fall into the prejudice that
they will get bored or that it is bad.
It can still be a good day
And then it's like that
There is a guideline
that tells you
what movie is good,
What movie is bad,
the one that has
some twist and it is
not completely even
in all its conception,
That movie ends
up being considered
bad. Because it is
not tolerated like that,
That disruption
that has to happen
in the middle so
that it can emerge
the bizarre and at the same time
for the emotional to emerge.
Because the bizarre
always brings in that twist
something that has to do with
with comedy, or with fear,
or with excitement and so on.
So there is a whole problem,
there with how it is received.
I think that for a long time
there was a disdain
for independent cinema
and Argentine genre
and expressions
so close to the bizarre.
A strong contempt
of all, let's say.
No?
From the press,
from the spectators
who did not want to
approach or did not know how
or maybe it is a deficiency too
from the movies
who failed to find
their audience.
Festivals often cut him off
the face of these
proposals and others
and the academy, consequently,
read a status report
that's good, if you
don't pay attention to it
It's because it doesn't work.
When I started hearing
the word bizarre
It came to me like
a derogatory thing, because
I first started making movies
in the year 96, 97,
and they categorized our movies
along with those of Coca Sarli,
with other bizarre films.
So, personally,
at first the word was a shock.
Over the years I realized
that the films we had made
were bizarre.
I can laugh a lot watching
in Plaga zombie
a couple of zombies
playing truco.
But maybe there
are people who say
"What nonsense is this,
what are these idiots doing?
zombies playing truco
A 79-year-old woman
maybe watches a movie
like Los Superbonaerenses
and vomits.
I think it's a kind of
a genre that breaks taboos.
He gets into the wrong topics,
I mean, if my ability to laugh
doesn't address those issues, then I'm
I find it horrible.
Well, I'm not going to laugh.
It would be great
if people could
laugh at it, because
it is not more also
that an exaggeration
of everyday situations. Right?
Science will bring
you back to your
beloved and that's you,
Pichu! Pichu!
When they detect that
the film is Argentine
They have a phobia
and most movie consumers
fall into these symptoms.
What is this crap?
Sadomaster? This is sh*t!
As with everything in general,
with foreign cinema
and national cinema,
Always what comes from outside
will have a
justification for why
does that, why did
Buuel do that madness,
why Lynch did
such a crazy thing.
Bizarre Argentine films
emulate those
North American films.
I think the main difference
It's that if you compare
bizarre Argentine movies
and bizarre American movies
like those of Troma, the
Argentine ones are better.
The one who knows
this kind of cinema
and saw them...
I dare him to watch
Grasa and then look
for a better one from Troma
on a formal level,
on a joke level,
duration, structure, etc.
Down with the USA,
dude! Yankee go home!
We can say that
it is practically new
It is a new cinema that
which began to explode,
let's say to develop
like in the 90s
and from 2000 onwards,
we started to see
a proliferation of
this kind of cinema
and for me we achieved
our own identity.
What's wrong with us
Argentinians? We're crazy, crazy.
We are so ungrateful
that we forget about those
who have given us
so much with their art.
I think there is a part
of national cinema
that, in retrospective,
Today it is seen as bizarre,
but at the time
they were films designed
for the general public,
mainstream films.
Movies I remember, based
in, I don't know,
Margarito Terer.
I don't know
That is a thing that...
Because Margarito Terer
had a movie at some point.
For example, La
noche del coyote
or movies like that,
that were completely forgotten.
But they are masterpieces,
I recommend them.
I do not believe under
any circumstances
that those movies
were thought of as
something bizarre.
I don't even think
the concept was there.
In El rey en Londres
we see The Beatles
opening for Palito Ortega.
Yes, yes.
I was not mistaken.
It's The Beatles,
opening for Palito Ortega.
And Che, OVNI,
which is also hilarious,
it is a film that motivated
a case of world ufology.
But you can go back much further. You can think of
Mirtha Legrand, in Vidalita pretending to be a man
because they put a beret
on him. At that moment,
probably located there.
it wasn't anything bizarre.
We see it now and we say well,
at least it is suspicious
what was going on there.
There are two different things,
one is a cinema
which is done badly on purpose.
And there is another
conception of bizarre which is
a cinema that has to do with
with the fantastic,
with the gore,
with the splatter,
with unrelated matters
to our idiosyncrasy,
that have to do with genre
Hollywood exploitation films.
Argentine bizarre cinema
had the particularity to arrive
late to those topics.
This is, for example, Vieyra
making the typical cinema of
the 50s, 40s, on the 60s and 70s.
If you watch La
venganza del sexo
a movie from the late 60s,
you will find all the clichs of
horror and science
fiction cinema
that Universal studios
produced in the 40s
adding the sexual component
that maybe those
movies didn't have.
- What is it called?
Sangre de virgenes,
When I first started watching it
I said
I hope for virgins, Vieyra eh,
I already know you, you're
going to show me an orgy
in the first scene.
Well, said and done.
But apart from that, they
start to be mentioned and
he kind of extrapolates to
a Yankee personality
and he is no longer
Emilio Vieyra,
hes Emile Veyra...
and does not work
with Ricardo Bauleo,
works with Richard Baulex.
And so did everyone.
I said, This is bizarre.
People like Vieyra
put us face to face
with the bizarre
not necessarily
is linked to poor quality.
He knew
well what was being
produced abroad.
He worked
side by side with exploitation.
The exploitation
was a subgenre
in the United States
that was not ashamed
of being what it was,
and that was handled like today
an algorithm would be used.
And it is true that
directors like B and
as Vieyra were
influenced from that,
but they argentinized it
and there is that
absolute bizarre touch.
I think in particular the
B and Sarli's
cinema was something
quite unique in the country.
They were the only
ones who were doing it
that kind of erotic material
and I think that
later, with time,
with John Waters, who makes
as a kind of vindication
from the cinema of
Armando B and Isabel Sarli.
Also a little bit
because it was always considered
that Sarli was B's
favourite actress.
I know what they say about me.
And she was
actually the partner,
then to reivindicate
that place of hers
as an audiovisual
entrepreneur, it's good
because it was not
taken into account and
she was the one who
spoke English and negotiated
with foreign distributors.
You are my agent
and you take care
of my things well,
but love with you? No.
Well, it seems to me that
over time she was reivindicated,
and that kind of cinema as well.
Not to mention that
they were banned.
Isabel was persecuted
for the Triple A, right?
In Embrujada when it ends, and
she walks away like totally alienated
after k*lling the
person he loved
and so on, she is doing
some development.
And with that open
ending, you dont know
If she really went
crazy, she leaves,
if shes like
embodying the pombero
and what she is doing
is of a different nature.
That mask
particularly, I find it
very scary, it scares me a lot.
If I accidentally
stumble upon that mask,
I won't be able
to sleep at night.
She was never appreciated
as an actress
but nevertheless
it was pointed out
that precisely by
focusing on her acting
all of B's movies
were, well, average,
because he always
does the same thing.
and so on. I do not agree,
To me it has some
things that are cool.
I will go out as often as I
want. I am the owner of my life.
Listen carefully, I can't
stand you anymore.
Perhaps the role of women
was basically geared
towards male consumption.
Scoundrel!
At that time, let's
remember, the 60s and 70s
spy cinema was a tendence
and everyone was trying to
profit with this kind of movies.
In many cases with comedy, right?
They mixed comedy and action.
That was a powerful combo.
And that's why here in the
70s we had movies like those of
Los Super Agentes which
ended up becoming a saga
very successful, right?
At the time it
was like a facelift
of all that were
the military forces:
the cops are good, the military
also, we laughed...
Today we can see it as bizarre,
we can say that,
but it also had a certain
amount of conservatism.
Let us remember that Sandro
with Operacin Rosa Rosa
begins to immerse
itself in the world
James Bond and espionage.
And that includes the weird stuff, right?
Especially the Rogermooresque style, right?
And there yes, when he embraces
the weird, the
bizarre, without a doubt
It sinks much more easily
in that we consider
bizarre cinema or the
most weird type of cinema.
They always took me back
to Saturdays afternoons,
Sunday afternoons...
Relatives in my house,
the movie in the background.
I don't say directly:
I got this from such movie,
But I do feel like it is
a kind of a film school.
How other people
like Orson Welles
or others like, I don't
know, French cinema
I like the Brigada Z.
All of that is like
school too, because
we watched it as
kids and we loved it.
We didn't know that was bizarre.
For example, Glut,
the alien, is a bizarre ALF.
Well, and the Brigada Z
was the shitty Police Academy
Because basically
what they did was: Well,
what is paying off
in the United States?
Danny DeVito and Schwarzenegger
in Twins? Well,
let's do it ourselves.
For you, cute parrot.
If I have to name an influence,
it is Los Exterrmineitors,
in some aesthetics and some...
because Extermineitors ,
if you watch them,
you can note that
they mimic a lot of takes
from Van Damme's Cyborg,
and Kickboxer.
But the same
shots, more or less.
It's like the same influence.
There is also something
technical in the movies
which was not respected
in Baeros for example.
You watch Extermineitors
and there are like frames...
There is a photography job,
It is also another
vision of the bizarre.
It's like well,
we're going to make
a bizarre movie.
We know these guys
aren't two action heroes,
but we're going to do it right.
And I feel like that happened
with Extermineitors.
But what are you doing, animal?
I don't want to say it badly...
That cinema where
women are objectified,
where these close-ups are made
of slobbering men
looking at them with desire,
gritting teeth.
You see, that w*nk*r attitude...
Okay, it represents an era,
the famous picaresque cinema
which I think has already died.
It appears from time to time
a slightly more
empowered woman, but
It is not a battle
completely won.
Good morning, agents.
Good morning, miss.
What do you mean miss?
Instructor, agents. Instructor.
To me they are not bizarre.
They are comedies of the time
that today, reinterpreted
by progressivism,
are currently considererd
bizarre, right? Or cancelled.
Boys.
Between the end of
the 80s and early 90s
there is a boom
at the consumer level,
which is the video store.
Virtually everything was rented.
That is, it was the time when
the largest amount...
of families began to acquire
the video cassette player
because it started
to be a little cheaper.
Our film industry,
which was already
in crisis, for at least
25 or 30 years back
says: We must make movies
to reach these people who rent
three or four per weekend.
Many of these national movies
recorded directly to video,
are shot in a country house,
because in one location
the totality of
the movie was resolved.
One good example is
Charly Das de Sangre
which was a kind
an exploitation film
from the 80s horror
movies like Freddys.
In addition to what happens in
the movie, that is
quite bizarre,
sometimes the lore
and the whole narrative,
are determining factors when
one chooses a movie,
Supposedly Adrian Suar asked
to destroy all copies.
Buy luckily, archivists exist
and they managed
to get some copies
The huge ones,
they are really huge
The movie that caught
my attention the most
It was one called
Los enormes and I
discovered it by chance
in a video store.
It said The huge ones
- spoken in Spanish.
So that
It seemed to me that it was even
an foreign movie
that was dubbed.
It was not clear
that it was an Argentine film.
And well, when I played it
and I started to investigate
it, I digitalized it...
It's a movie of low size actors,
and it has a
superhero-like thing about it,
There is a bad guy who steals
the Official Time,
which is Magal Moro.
The song is spectacular,
It's spectacular,
it's super repetitive
and catchy.
The Simpsons
I told you to get lost
Let me show you that I
am something more than
a girl with a
vag*na and two t*ts
Okay sister, you
won, I hear you.
But what are you
doing with that d*ck
in the shape of a flute?
He doesn't start with porn,
He starts as a technician
in nationally produced films.
Then he goes with his name
original, Roberto Sena,
to make some comedy films
where he casted
some important actors.
It is the first, on the
one hand, and then
is the most prolific.
He's a guy who filmed around
300 movies, movies.
I don't make movies for jerks,
I make films for everyone,
for wankers
and for guys who have brains
and they can watch a
porn movie, and see,
and feel connected
with what they see.
Identified. That woman
why is she f*cking that guy?
That's the script.
But he is a guy who above all
made movies
And it is definitely
the heaviest name
the most important,
the most serious,
and with the most
institutional weight within porn
in Argentina.
Suez's cinema also...
Ricardo Suez,
That's terrible.
Forbidden relationship
when they talk there...
the two l*sbian women.
Instead, you give me security.
You made me know love,
a different world unknown to me.
I think I could never
get out of it now.
Forgive me, but sometimes
you make me doubt.
No, don't doubt it,
because it is like that.
What was attractive
about it was that
in the video store bin
the budget movie
and the movie direct to video
had the same value.
I was fascinated
by the films of...
the one I consider the
number one in local cinema.
His name only
differs by one letter
from Fellini, who is Bellini.
Pablo Bellini.
He made three movies that
to me they represent bizarre
national cinema in its splendor.
I mean, it's an
ectasy from the minute
1 to 90, which I don't know
if they will last 90 or so.
Bellini had Bell
video at the time
and later had
other video editors
like Buena onda
and many more labels.
So the same person who produced
the film, then distributed
it, so that's how
many costs were reduced.
Pablo had money,
He paid his actors very well.
I spoke to several,
Every time I came across someone
I asked them to tell me some
story or something like that,
and Reinaldo Alcaraz told me,
he went on vacation
to Cordoba.
And he didn't want to know anything
about that character, about "Manija",
He didn't want to
know anything else
And once he was
with his wife in a taxi
and the taxi driver was
looking at him through the mirror,
he was looking at him,
he was looking at him.
And when he got off
the taxi, he said to him
Are you the one
from the movie?
Yes The jerk-offs
I must have done
What a terrible
thing to be told.
No? I must have
jerked off to that movie
It seemed like it had gone
from good vibes to a bit
Well, a little bit scared,
dude, you son of a b*tch.
Asalto y violacin
en la calle 69
also has
pissing scenes,
really weird stuff.
Now I'm going to
piss on your face.
It's a total shock.
Even when you realized what
kind of rough movie is,
maybe a difficult film to watch,
but I think that
ending... is surprising.
It is very surprising.
SON OF A b*tch!
Look at the magic we have in
this country, huh? It's beautiful.
Maybe it has something
to do with that too.
It's like they take
me back in time
when I watched
them with my friends.
No, it's terrible that
I like them so much.
those movies.
Now that I think about it,
If I had dedicated those
hours to something else
thing, I don't know...
I might have a degree.
Well, I was on vacation in
Saint Therese.
And there was a play called
No me toquen el
pinguino, with Silvia.
I was with my girlfriend,
and we approached her there,
so right there,
so as not to lose
the push that we got going
I said well, lets do this,
we have to call Reynaldo,
and he accepted.
Reynaldo couldn't believe it.
Reynaldo is my weakness.
I know all the phrases
from Manija by heart.
There's a scene
there at the beginning
that he just got out of jail
and that's where
the movie starts.
We are driving around in a car,
and he says:
Manija is back, kid!
He tells me.
And I was excited.
Manija is saying this to me.
Everything went to hell.
Manija is back,
kid! Manija is back!
And I think there is a
very important movement,
very big, of bizarre cinema
in Argentina
and there is a great
movement and above all
a movement that many
people don't know about.
There is hope then my brothers.
If these humans
fail what the hell
are we going to do?
Rafael, there is hope,
you have to have a
wine and everything.
They are the chosen ones
They are already with us.
I'm really stoned!
Fede Tarantola's films,
whom I worked with a lot.
It also has like more things
of an intentionally
sought bizarre,
but many artistic things appear
also, that makes it different
and achieves the
rarity of the bizarre.
Ultra-Toxic by Jimmy Crispin.
It is a film that is so bizarre
that it borders on the artistic,
You don't know anymore...
It's there like on the limit,
but I think that is the extreme.
Sosa Arroyo.
He was the only guy I knew who
made a movie that was serious,
but that didn't work,
then people laughed,
he then realized about this
and added comic scenes
to acknowledge
that it was funny.
I didn't see any director
so self-conscious to recognize
"Hey, it turned out
not so good, I'd rather
make it a comedy.
- Hello
- Look, Victoria, there is a
nephew of mine from Bahia Blanca
that... well, actually
I am Tangalanga,
this is a joke.
What the f*ck did I do?
The particularity
about Cosamostra
is that they make genre films,
and they add something
that other producers
dont do
which is the eroticism.
They approach to a
genre that goes a little bit
towards the erotic,
towards erotic
trash, which is good,
I think it differentiates them
from other producers
from the environment
They are very good friends
with Mondolila and
and the films are different.
As if Mondolila
does something more
bizarre and more like a style
more Magarios out
there, and Cosamostra
take it a little more serious
and over time they were also
trying to raise the
technical quality.
You know well what happened
Last time, we almost all ended
up, we almost all ended up in jail.
Botaniz...
El Pollo, a big one.
He has a verbosity when
he acts that fascinates me.
And you can't
stop listening to it.
El pollo, the guy
funniest in Argentine cinema.
I've seen it in many roles...
playing a guy who scares you.
What a way for these
people to talk nonsense.
When it comes to
talking about who
are the ones who
carry the flag of national
bizarre cinema,
or at least Argentine
fantasy cinema,
made independently,
It is inevitable
to talk about Farsa
Producciones
These guys
spearheaded all of this
because they were
kids when they did it.
Let's remember Plaga zombie
which was released in 1997.
They were children.
Ten-year-olds making
zombie movies directed by
them, performed by
them, edited by them.
If that's not something unusual
I don't know what it is.
So, we kind of have
the question, well:
"If we watch this type of
film not filmed in Haedo,
filmed in Connecticut, and
with a little more budget,
do we consider it
bizarre or we consider it
a zombie movie?
By a social convention
alien invasions
take place in the United States.
No to Haedo, Haedo no.
For now, are you
thinking of ending
with the zombies
or will you continue
at some point?
Because you owe a lot
to zombies, don't you?
You have gotten us
into a mess, I beg you.
I want you to meet them:
This is Nacho, Alejo and
Estefi.
They are going to be
helping with the program,
So well, treat them well
because they are from Capital.
This is the best
moment of my life,
a unique, special moment,
I will give my all
so that you feel
proud, happy and proud...
Bianca has been my
partner for ten years now.
So when we film we are
kind of like the
Pimpinela, we fight,
she wants to do what she wants,
she destroys all the dialogues.
It was good to be
able to discuss a lot.
It wasn't that good
maybe for the people
who was working with us.
But then people love her, so
I am condemned to
continue casting her
in all the movies.
There aren't many
movies with strong feminine
characters neither,
and many times the discussion
It was about well,
I am a woman,
I read the whole script,
I'm very into the character,
I don't know if
Marisa would say this,
Maybe she would
say this a little more....
It happens to us that
most of the directors
are men, aren't they?
And that also usually
directors are
also screenwriters.
So it's difficult for them
to think
from the point of view
of a female character,
like the story that
occurs to them
when writing a script
It's a man doing man things
and we women are
kind of the b*tches.
I like the sun,
But I like water
more, I like the sea.
There is also a more
degenerated bizarre
like for instance
Supermondo Trasho 3,
it was super degenerate.
I act in that one,
but luckily it is not
easy to get a copy.
I was a close friend
to Mariano Peralta.
He used to do
something very funny.
His mother had a video store.
There in Dock Sud, he finished
filming a movie and he took
The Exorcist VHS case,
bye Exorcist, hello Peralta.
So maybe the people
who went to the video store
and wanted to rent a movie
ended up watching
a couple of crazies
running, all blood stained
by Dock Sud and you
say what the hell?.
They really screwed him.
And then I talked to him
and he told me, it's
good, let them talk.
I mean, no matter what they say,
let them speak badly,
but let them speak
And that's him, you know?
It's like: "Okay, okay, I mean,
I'm going to do
what I feel like doing
and if you don't like it,
Well, thanks for looking and
three kisses.
And then theres
the movies made by
Sarna punk cinema crew.
They take it to a limit
that is almost difficult
to tolerate even for the
people who are used
to watch bizarre cinema.
And there it is
a third meaning of bizarre.
Bizarre is something that
is done wrong on purpose.
The bizarre is something
that was done well,
but it turned out bad.
And there is a third meaning
that the bizarre
has to slap you,
has to knock you out.
Yes, those are the Trash
especially the trilogy.
The slogan is to
bust some ba*ls.
And it is also called
Sarna (scabies)
because it stings
and it bothers
and that's part of it.
To manage to generate something
from that place.
Tell me, do you believe in God?
Oh tiny unborn child,
we will invoke your
heavenly strength.
If it happens a third time,
There is a declaration of w*r.
Besides being called garbage,
They are made of garbage.
And it's part of
the concept too.
I mean, we were going out to
to build Trash sets
we got into a van
at twelve o'clock at night
and we went out
to tour factory areas
and we lifted pallets and then
We took apart those pallets
and we built props from that.
And stirring dump trucks...
There is a scene that
is completely made
with pallets,
a carpet that we found in the
street.
All quite on purpose,
made from trash.
I worked with the
guys from Farsa
And one day Soria
comes and tells
that somebody treated
us like hippie cinema.
You guys make hippie films and the truth is that
you can say anything to me, but hippie...never.
Peace out man.. Ohh dude...
But what is your problem
with hippies, dude?
And we are a generation
with Rbora, as more
close to punk,
We grew up in Cemento,
well, those things.
The punk movie thing starts by
making movies
just for the sake of it,
without expecting
anything in return,
and with whatever is
available. Like do it yourself.
They were evolving the thing,
They even made
a method out of it.
And that iwhat the punk
philosophy is all about,
like the cinematic punk
which Marcelo Leguiza also does
or at one time he did it,
and that's also why we connected
quite a bit with Sarna.
The reality is that we made
eleven films.
Yes, eleven. And the first three
we experimented
with that concept
I tell you Hey,
this is bizarre...
We did one called
Mutazombie in 2005,
which was distributed
around the world
and I said my movie
is being distributed and
today I say I am an idiot,
that movie was crap.
But we took that approach
because it's bizarre or
we're going to do it like this
because it's cheap.
And when you play
around that concept
you realize that
your capabilities
you are not raising them.
You're saying, "Well,
I'm going to do this
just like that
because it's bizarre."
I regret doing it like that.
One grows, one
tells other stories
is changing the way to film
and sometimes, someone
reminds you of it,
And you say, No, wait, I made six more movies
after that, why do you remember me for that one?
There I began to
understand what I wanted:
to tell things within
the bizarre genre.
That's why I'm here
almost all the time
returning to the topic of
"Well, what's
bizarre in function
of how we tell it .
Or maybe bizarre it's not just
the intestines that come out
of someone.
The bizarre can go anywhere,
It can be anything
that you take it to a universe.
What a blow!
Proyecto Pitufo Enrique
We first watched it with
some friends of mine,
I remember in a BARS, because
Of course, the title
refers to an event
that happened in Cronica TV.
What a smurf this is!
And we thought it was a thing
and we found another one,
such a delirium
intense, right?
An absolute I don't
care about anything.
I think Elvira
Serio was it, right?
And it is... how do you
say it? I can't find the word,
It's like an alter ego.
I gave myself that name
so as not to give my name.
I had a Yahoo email,
I mean, imagine how
long ago this happened
fifteen, twenty years,
around there. Yes, twenty.
Some people wrote to me:
Elvira, you're really cool...
I would like to
invite you to...
I think some of them I answered
with something like: no...look
and others I didn't even answer.
I never used that
to drive someone crazy, but
I would have to go
back to that email
to extort people.
Sure, yes, like the
Videotomia movies
that at the time I
saw them because
I saw Ezequiel more often,
but he didn't make
that many either.
Ezequiel is a
professional smoke seller.
I don't really know
why I'm sitting
here, because I'm a
bit of a charlatan, that is,
It's not that I
"dedicate myself to this"
If I have time, I'll do it.
In El Pitufo..
We were filming a scene
with a whole bloody bathroom
and in the bathroom it was...
I don't know how to say it,
like there's a little
window like that.
There was a girl in
her underwear, all blood
and when I look out there is a woman standing
on the other side of the window, all shocked.
I told her, We are
making a movie.
and then the police arrived.
When making
Cichonga, we had to shot
a scene with Mister
Pancho, which had
a whole table full
of cocaine bricks
and we loaded the whole car
with cocaine bricks
and fake money
and we go there, to Hurlingham.
And to cross the
General Paz highway
There is a police checkpoint
and they just stop us
because the car, I
mean, we were in my car
that was Cichonga's car
and had written on the hood
LA PORONGA, and
they tell me what's up with
the documentation?
It was a bit loose
and he makes us open the trunk.
We had to explain to the police
that we were going
to film a movie.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Try it, it's flour, it's
flour, it's not drugs.
I love Cicho.
Cicho is an
absolutely charismatic.
It makes me laugh
because he is the crook, always.
Cicho is not only a great
actor, but he is also a producer,
a cinematographer.
Come on, come on,
I'm going to burn up.
A phenomenon, Cicho,
is a star.
Besides, a very funny guy.
A great guy to film with.
I'm not Gordo anymore.
I am now Lord
Gordon of the light.
- You've changed.
- I have evolved
into a state of matter
that you, an inferior being,
will never be able to understand.
- Stop, Gordo!
- Shut up h*m*
sapiens, thinking monkey,
How dare you come
between Lord Gordon
and its objective?
Stop, Gordo.
Let's take a selfie.
And I said, why do people
can't see anything strange or
ridiculous that takes
them out of his daily routine
and laugh for a while?
Why can't this be done?
So it kind of started
there on the one hand,
that's where Mondo Lila started,
that was like
from the pictorial.
I started making
my first short films
bizarre, I started
to get motivated
because a lot of
people started to come,
that people laughed,
that people was
taking part of the screenings
and then feature
films were being made.
And it's like the
bizarre proposal
was always there.
It's like "Hijos de
puta por eleccin
I have a lot of respect for it,
because it was
my first feature film,
because I also was surprised.
First I started
screening it in places,
like in bars. Not
in the premiere
at a festival, that very film.
And every time I
screened it was sold out,
and people laughed
and participated.
So that movie
left me with a very
pleasant memory.
So that's why
I also said okay,
let's do part two.
Chick, darling.
Dani Zalenco is the
great one, as an actor
and as a producer.
A few days ago we
were filming some things
in his house, which
is always offered
so we can go sh**t.
Dani's house is in
more movies than I am.
We once went to BAFICI
to see John Waters
and I said to John Waters:
This is the
Argentinian Divine.
He fell completely in love,
He spent a lot of
time talking with Dani.
El onanista
perturbado, by Zanardi
that has like that phallus
that beats the one from
Muere monstruo muere
Well, I thought
I saw the longest
phallus in the world and no.
And it's like
that some people may say hey,
It's a lot, it kind
of disgusts me,
It makes me sick
and others will laugh.
Ramn Caribe is the
best Argentine actor.
He appears on screen
and the movie
instantly improves.
Ramn Caribe is a
Shakespearean actor.
He has the skill to
never follow instructions
You can't say such
a barbaric thing.
I think he played as
four villains, easily.
He could have
done the same villain,
but you see the four villains
and they are not
the same character.
And to achieve
that, look, Reymon.
The truth is I don't
know what I did
to have the friends
that I have, because...
from all of them,
I don't make one.
Either I don't pay any more
attention to them, or I don't know.
With all the assholes
you have as friends, you
have to make them pay.
I began to realize that one
always deposits more trust
or imagine the
funniest situations
starring male actors,
because men are not
afraid of being ridiculized.
Why don't we try making a movie?
where the action
and the one that motivates you
and makes you
laugh and the one that
you identify with
is a woman?
In that spirit
It is our responsibility
as actresses
to propose, to find
our comedy,
from a side that perhaps
It's not the one in the script,
but to be able to
propose things ourselves.
Yes, I think my films
have bizarre elements.
Yeah.
If I had more budget maybe not,
but since I don't have it...
Telling the stories
as best as you can,
with the resources
you have available
and then from
outside they rate you.
But I don't know,
I don't think that when
Nirvana were playing,
they tought We
are doing grunge
They made music.
Then, on the outside
they will rate you,
and you look at
yourself from the outside
and you say ah, ok,
I was doing grunge
In the moment, one
builds, one does.
Limbo Alucinante
which is the last movie
that I did, it took me...
because we were in a pandemic.
It was almost all done
in an apartment with chroma
and I did it in about
eight days, ten.
Post-production was a problem
because some of the effects
were very difficult to create
It took me a little
over a year and a half.
When we made La isla de Lost,
We were all in, because
we were a bunch of misfits
making a video in the
Ecological Reserve.
My girlfriend at the time
lent me a small digital camera.
It is very poorly recorded
and I remember watching
the twelve o'clock news
from the night of Telefe News
and Paolosky says
look at these guys
what they did
And then La Isla de
Lost is played on Telefe.
And I was like: What
the hell is going on?
My whole face turned red.
I guess that was going viral
at that time. Thousand views
in one day we had, imagine.
We started making Toronja
producciones half in jest,
we gave it the name
Producciones as at that time
similarly as to putting
www to everything:
Toronja Producciones.
We dubbed bloopers
with the voice with
the helium effect
and it was more of a hobbie
with friends who get
together to do something.
It wasn't very well thought out
as a thing you
could profit from.
How much longer?
In the year 2009, aproximately
We premiered with
three friends, a web series
which was called Hongo Nuclear
It was designed
directly for the Internet
and in 2009 there was almost no
content made for the internet
made by more or
less film people.
But these projects that
we can classify as bizarre
are born from a place of:
I want to do something
fun, enough of that
I don't want to have a
team of thirty people,
that is a mess
and that everything is fine,
but it's like everything
takes forever.
Each plane takes a
lot of work, you see?
I want to be with my friends
laughing my head
off and recording.
For example, when I did
Bailando con el peligro
it was very recurrent
that many things that i wanted
to be played as an action scene
really cool, really professional
but for some reason
the bizarre was filtered in
and it was like a cross
between the two things
very strange.
And I carried that over
into the sequel as well,
which is Nacido para morir,
I already said:
I am a serious
director and I do things
very well and I am
a very capable guy.
So I was filming with a crew.
It's full of people, everything
is great and professional, but
Suddenly the little
train of joy passed by
and the little train
was something else.
And that freshness is
something that always
I try to come back
from time to time.
I do a project that
It ruins my life
because it is so difficult.
But afterwards it
looks great, hopefully.
But now I want to
do something that makes
me laugh for a while.
Now you'll see, fatso!
No no no no, no.
no and no.
In a Buenos Aires
Rojo Sangre we started
to meet other people.
We met Andrs Borghi on a sh**t.
We said: hey, we
want to do shorts.
YouTube was already
there. At that time
YouTube was already there.
We want to make
short films, more
nonsense, with shorter things,
more to the point.
Well, come on.
And we get together.
and there came out
Coso, for example.
Already mixing the
professional part
what we all began to
dedicate ourselves to,
but we still remain a group
of misfits having fun,
that's what we did
always since we were kids,
since we were teenagers.
To get revenge on the Chameleon
I had to infiltrated
the villains.
We started Masacre Marcial...
We had done Sdica 3
which was a previous film.
Pablo showed that movie to his
taekwondo partners.
They were all great fighters
and they gathered themselves
the guys said:
Let's make a movie
lets make a movie and there
we started filming it.
But the movie was
done on weekends.
And also when you face
to a feature-length
script, you start
seeing things that don't work.
Then you have
to reaccomodate
things in the middle,
you are missing scenes,
you are adding them, then
that makes the movie longer.
much more, I think.
It didnt take six years
because it was a
blockbuster, it took
six years because
three months went
by and we didn't film.
Then everyone grew up,
were changing,
but also
we were learning new things.
So there are scenes
that are really good,
that the fights are barbaric
and others are a pain.
And it turned out
... a better movie.
When the film is
already in process,
everyone starts to
get hooked, you see?
as if they were beginning
to contribute from their place
they stop taking up that space.
Well, I am the actor
and they start to get involved
at the production level.
And one said, I have a boat.
Let's make a
scene on a boat, that is.
I mean, I knew the guys from
the music scene
It turns out they
were writing 2 locos.
I tought: what is it
like to write films?
And that kind of
generated the click and
Uh this is so good.
And I started proposing gags,
a couple of jokes
and they liked them
and they told me,
hey, next Thursday
come here and
we'll continue writing.
After having had the experience
of Masacre Marcial,
which lasted five years,
We said now we
have to make a movie
in quite the opposite way.
We are going to start it
and we are going
to finish it in a year.
I left my job.
I mean, we raised
money, I resigned,
we went to Mar del Plata.
- But are you a man
or are you not a man?
- If I'm a man, how
come I'm not a man?
- Let's go to Mar del Plata
- Come on
2 locos en Mar del Plata
takes a clear influence
from Carlos
Galettini and the films
from Francella - Disi,
the TV exploitation
programs like Brigada
Cola and others.
They take
what the movies were about
as well as those of Los baeros
ms locos del mundo
which are also movies
which at the time
were mainstream, right?
Its a very self-conscious movie
of the tribute,
but it's not a
100% nostalgic movie
of that cinephile lineage.
For me 2 locos
en Mar del Plata
It's like a vertex in independent
argentine contemporary cinema
It's like something
happens there that breaks
or it is created,
and there is a new
line of films that
are more inspired
by 2 locos than
of Galettini's cinema.
And it is a film that in fact,
It's like the Argentine
summer movie
par excellence, actually more
than any of the Baeros,
because they made
more Baeros movies
recently and the truth
is that really none
of them are funny.
Those are films
made without desire,
without ideas,
with stars of today,
but without a
drop of inspiration,
without flight,
without imagination.
And yet 2 locos
has all of that.
What are you doing here?
You slacker, nosy?
Get the hell out of here.
- But what poetry?
(indistinct discussion)
Ehhh what an a*s!
And Ral Schurlein
is a great one,
a historical figure of cinema
who unfortunately
died because well,
We would have called him to do
a thousand more movies.
Schurlein had a lot of charisma
and I think Lojo -
Marini, that wonderful duo
have exploited the
characteristics of
Schurlein's comedy.
He was in a bunch
of things we did
for VideoFlims.
We have paid tribute and homage
to Master Schurlein
and I also understand
that the guys have not forgotten
about Raul.
Grab the shovel, you lazybones!
Oh, what rubbish!
I need some urgent advice.
Divano is Marlon Brando.
If he arrives to the
sh**ting and did not stay
asleep or drunk somewhere else
he is a soldier who
always delivers.
It's pure charisma.
A piglet's heart.
For old times sake.
Now what do we do?
We f*ck them up.
If you watch a Netflix movie
everyone is pretty.
There is a lot of diversity.
They cast a Chinese, an
Indian, I don't know what,
but all pretty, little models.
So, choosing friends
to act,
that are not beautiful
the movie becomes
a little bizarre
from there on.
Yes, there are actors that to me
are essential, but
because I really
like the way they act,
not because they
are part of that group.
I invented several of them
and they don't pay me.
I had gotten angry
Because they don't pay
me when they hire them
in big movies, but oh well.
It is also true that
sometimes for an actor
It's a problem to be
part of these movies,
because they are
pointed out, judged
Less than ten years ago
I don't think there
was a complaint,
but there was some fuzz at the
Buenos Aires Rojo
Sangre in which a
Gorevision movie
had offended....
That was a symptom
of what was coming.
We have to go to
the rebel base, idiots.
You must have patience.
Calm down Princess,
we're leaving.
Shut up, you horrible man!
She's a princess.
It's the movie that
provoked the most anger...
the one we screened
and generated more anger
Incredibly was Star
Wars Goretech,
which was the last
one we screened,
but it happened at a time
that there was a lot
of sensitivity there
and the humor was
not understood too much
and there they hit us
with a lot of criticism
on social media, everywhere.
In fact, they didn't screen it
anywhere else.
That movie was...
it's a masterpiece,
but it did not come through.
Maybe because
it was very strong.
Star Wars Goretech is dubbed
to Hindi and Russian
and it is spectacular
because the hindu version
They act almost
better than here.
A guy who is a
hero at this point,
who is German Magarios.
German Magarios
A leading figure in
national bizarre cinema.
He's a guy who always remains
faithful to those kind of movies
who is always
challenging everything
that he finds in his path.
When I'm filming
I like being in a bad mood
and yell at everyone.
I like to do that,
but partly in
jest, but I like it
He always says: you
have to act seriously,
morons, don't f*ck around.
The magic of the
bizarre will happen
because the situation
is already bizarre.
And if you act it seriously,
it's even more bizarre.
Back to you,
Juan Peron.
I think my first short film
came out in '94.
We discovered that we had
some acquaintances
who made short films.
I didnt even know
about the existence
of a video camera,
I didn't know that
product existed
and we met one guy who had one.
We started filming
shorts, shorts,
short and then, as
everyone says, well,
if you are making shorts,
why don't you
make a feature film?
And it was actually in 97
that we started filming
a movie called
Ruedas de metal, which was a
Mad Max type, but
we never finished it.
We had all kinds of setbacks.
There we realized
that it was not so simple
to make a feature film.
Actually the first
real one is from 2002.
It's LSD Frankenstein
from Gorevision.
I wasn't into Gorevision yet.
A crazy thing.
I remember watching that movie,
It was the first
Gorevision movie I saw
And I said, What am
I doing watching this?
I can't believe I'm
seeing this. And no,
and I couldn't get up
to put the stop on the VCR.
Bizarre and beautiful.
Maybe when we
made Sadomaster 1
that was, like, a boom,
it was like a hit.
To have been a thing we did
In five days, I think
we shot it in five days.
with the mini DV camera,
with my friends
there and just like that.
It was a success
It came out on DVD in the United
States, it was on USAs Netflix
catalogue, when it was with DVD.
And it was the Netflixs
worst rated movie
- For glory.
- Cheers Noriega.
The first Pochito...
Pochito we say to those movies
we make in one night,
we made one that was called
Alan Smithes Nosferatu.
Which was like a found
version of Nosferatu,
that we had invented
as if it was an Argentine film
from the 70s 60s,
which was lost
due to censorship.
That was rumored
to be directed by
Jorge Polaco
and that it was the first
vampire argentine movie
It was a version of Nosferatu.
And the crew from
Festival Inusual
told me they
wanted to screen it.
So, in the screening day
we went there, and the public
wasnt our kind of espectator
It was an audience of people
that they were going to see
something about vampires.
There were intellectual people
So, man with a beard and a pipe.
We started panicking,
we had to leave in
the middle of the movie.
We had to run away, basically.
Because when they
presented the film
they pointed out to
us: there they are
that they made it, and I asked
the presenter not to do that,
and we left halfway
because it was terrible.
Those people said that the movie
was terrible.
Master, you're
back, you're back.
We were filming Goretech
Bienvenidos al
planeta hijo de puta
And we were at Sarmiento Park
and the director came
up with an idea, he said:
There has to be a clone.
A clone of your character.
I said, Well, whatever So he
pulled out some green makeup
and painted me all green.
And now you are the Hot Tuna
because he spent all day
saying hot tuna, hot tuna
I don't know where the hell
that came from. The thing is
it was paint.
I don't know for
how long that paint
had been in the filming bag,
and I couldn't get it out.
I spent a week going to work
with a tone, a green hue.
Master! Hot tuna! Hot tuna!
Every now and then
I watch the Gorevision
movies again
and I think: that
day Gorevision
saved my life.
For example,
I just had a breakup,
everything was bad
and I was, well, deep in sh*t.
And suddenly
going to a sh**t and
being with all of them
and sharing and so on,
It must happen to many
that should be in
this documentary
that cinema also saves you
even from that place.
No, no, not just by watching it,
but sometimes
also participating,
lending a hand or acting...
They act and film
and they produce
with complete freedom.
Anarchy!
I am a fan
And I'm not saying this
because he's a friend,
but I'm a fan of Vic Cicuta.
He is the face of bizarre cinema
and independent cinema.
The guy from the
Pueyrredn Hall,
the doorman, one day
looked at the screen,
saw Vic Cicuta and told me:
He's like an Al Pacino of
the underground, isn't he?
I was born without fear.
The doctor cried
when I peeked out
of my mother's vag*na.
VideoFlims is nothing
more and nothing less
that a new small company
determined to unify all these
independent
filmmakers who until now
were running around
loose and giving them a unit
and a commercial outlet.
Videoflims was an
independent film distributor
We edited around 70 films
on DVD, we took them
to the cinema, to festivals
and so on.
We wanted to invent
something that would give us
work because we all were broke.
So we said: let's sell our
movies.
We took them to video stores,
There were cultural
events, movies,
whatever,
and we put a little table
there and we sold the movies.
We were contemporaries
of a second
wave of Argentine
fantastic cinema.
There were people
who were predecessors
to us and we continued a little
with what was
happening, but we lived
a moment of great turmoil.
Yeah? That's like
the end of 2000,
early 2010.
In that decade.
I think it was a
good kick-off for
taking fantastic cinema
out of the closet.
There was a very strong feeling
because there was a
generational change
with the determination
of changing everything.
The physical formats
were still circulating.
We were young, therefore,
we had a very
volcanic energy that
sometimes got us
into trouble, sometimes
placed us in
privileged situations.
I mean, we gathered
with presidents,
we had trips.
We lived through some very
exciting experiences with the guys.
I had my pants patched
in the crotch because
we didn't have a penny.
And well, and so on
we got to know a lot of people
that I assume
will be in this documentary.
There were movies
that were so good or not,
but they deserved...
It seemed to us
that they deserved
to have a DVD edition
as pretty as
Matrix, lets say.
With a DVD authorship,
with extras, with menus
and with things and with
options and with
director's comments
and with a cover
and graphic design
so that you
you can put it in your library.
And why that low budget movie
can't have that?
That was the main motivation for
SRN Distribution
at the time and also
the guys from VideoFlims did it,
but the difference
between them, was that
SRN was not turning down movies.
Then also many times,
and speaking of the bizarre,
sometimes we accepted
to distribute some movies
that Videoflims
said, No, no,
this is not going
into our catalogue
And they came to SRN and we said
Yes, Uritorco! Obviously we are
going to release Uritorco on DVD!
Vi, vi, vi, Videoflims.
Some events were held
which were called
the Videoflims galas,
which were once a year.
We all gathered in one place.
We asked all the directors
to make some advertising spots
promoting the same distributor.
And we organized
the championship
of those advertisements,
with a jury.
And most of it was all bizarre.
Did you do your
homework, as*h*le?
You stupid idiot!
What the f*ck do you
want with your life?
f*ck you!
But dad, it cost me five pesos!
You got scammed, as*h*le!
There were some
that were spectacular.
Well, the Gorevision
one was great,
the Toronja one was spectacular.
We went to Las Toninas
to sh**t the spot for
The true Messiah,
there is some truth to that.
But well, that also faded away,
It was already the
end of the DVD era,
Streaming was
starting to be a thing
and we didn't know how to do it.
We didn't know how to
to be able to charge
for the film because
that was another of
the keys to Videoflims.
It was that with that money
we paid the director
so that he can
film another movie.
Welcome friends,
Vaco Moloco brings you
the latest world event.
Hold on.
The great...The great...
Hey, but we
already saw this sh*t,
play Arvitek, dude!
Damn, play Arvitek!
Arvitek! Arvitek!
At one time with some friends
We were doing a film cycle
which was called La
gran maratn de cortos
La maraton de cortos...
How can we forget it?
I love that place. I
don't know if it still exists.
I have gone...
very drunk to Finisterres bar
to see if there was
a party that day.
It was done on a
Thursday every 15 days
Some days it was
packed with people
and it was beautiful,
because a community
was formed there
very nice, very
united, let's say.
It was like it came
together... it was like
Vieytes' soap dish,
It was like... where the
revolution was going on.
Yes, it was beautiful,
there were short films,
and if the audience booed
you, they would take you out.
I remember
that when we screened
Toronjas shorts
we couldn't even
get past the intro.
What were they shouting?
They shouted the
brand of the DVD.
So we sat down with Marcelo.
"Well,
now we are going to
screen some shorts
and they didn't screen them
because they were bullies.
It was beautiful.
And then there was a party
and there was karaoke
and it was fabulous.
And I made friends
with a lot of people.
People liked what I did
and a big joke was
created which is
when I made the short...
I made a short film in
New Zealand myself.
That got awarded
by Peter Jackson,
he gave it the first prize.
It's a great anecdote.
And everyone was
like So, are you
Peter Jacksons friend?
It started as a joke
that I was Peter
Jackson's friend.
Many there were Tolkien fans.
Everything that was
happening was very strange.
I went to all the marathons
until it simply wasn't
done anymore.
For the sole reason that, sooner
or later, all projects come to an end.
Idiot!
Noooo!
Speech time!
Sirs!
I know all
and each of the difficulties
that we have been through
to get to this moment.
Getting to this moment
has not been easy.
Much blood has
flowed under the bridge.
However...
We are here for a
very, very special cause.
I think we like bizarre cinema
first because we come
as we said at the
beginning, from a place
in which the bizarre is the rule
isn't it? it's a country
where the bizarre
emerges all the time.
Without us wanting it.
It happens. It just happens.
I think we like bizarre cinema
for the same reasons
that other people don't like it.
Sometimes maybe I check in IMDB
and depending on the rating
I decide if I watch
the movie or not.
If it already has an
eight, well, I don't know,
I'll see it around another time.
There are two stars.
It's crap,
I say: uh, lets see,
I want to watch this.
In the bizarre
there is a super positive anyism
that when it is held
and when it is
consistent, is really cool.
You can take advantage to do
and say what you want
that will be justified
within the context
and you know that the public
is not going to be
offended. Or if it is offended
well, that's their problem.
Reflecting reality
into something bizarre, that
is, being able to say something
that bothers you
that you think is not right,
but put it there
to make it visible.
It's cathartic, I
think that's why.
Because we all have
a lot of morbid things inside
and there are people
who let them out,
and people who don't,
and there are people
who let them out through
this, right? this
type of cinema,
this kind of movies.
And maybe
the majority of
viewers do not like it
and those of us who
are already followers
and we are cultivators
of the bizarre,
It fits us like a glove.
It is always underestimated.
What a horrible thing
that you are doing
and how unprofessional you are.
This kind of bizarre cinema
does not generate money.
You waste money and
a lot of time doing it.
it takes me from
two to three years
to make a movie.
You have to go
through a lot of stages
in your life, psychologically,
physically, monetarily.
You have to be
very determined
to love that project.
Then something
happens where it
is not a genre that
that gives secure
profitability to anyone.
If there is something we need
is to exorcise our social demons
and be able to
laugh a little at this
overwhelming reality.
The toughest the reality,
the more motivated we feel.
Making bizarre cinema
is a form of resistance too,
and protest against all that
as if to say:
are you going to tell
me that I can't film?
I'm going to film anyway.
No matter what you say.
So I think that
it will always continue
to exist because
few people have
access to a real budget
to make a movie here.
Not having money to
to make a super special effect,
etc., you make do
with what you have.
And that's where
creativity comes in.
Something will occur to us.
They are done in a Taliban way,
they are done because
they have to be made.
These movies
we're going to do it for honor.
No, not for for...
there is no industry there.
There is something
there with the vocation,
with passion, with desire
to do something despite...
I'm not saying it's easy to do.
and that is why they are made.
But I think there is
an audience there,
that is waiting for
them to be made.
The public loves these movies,
the screening ends
and the public approaches you
with one eye here
and the other there,
they cannot understand
what they have just seen.
you see their faces and
they are like in shock.
Retributions... to the
soul. The applause
of the people or the
swearing of the people.
You are sons of b*tches.
You made me waste
two hours of my life.
We are interested in
living an experience
that we didn't
expect, let's say.
That's why the
filmmakers who made
any bizarre movies,
we come back to it.
I was recently talking to Ale,
saying, how many of us,
production companies, still
remain through the years.
and we can count them
with the fingers in our hands
they were like six or seven.
And all people between
forty and fifty years old,
but we look younger
because we wear Bermuda shorts.
Strange things have
happened to these guys.
(unintelligible words)
There has been
what is called natural selection
or decantation.
Many people
that vibrated at a low frequency
ended up moving away
and we really remain
those who today
we can say that we
are family, family.
I am available, that is,
whenever they call me,
If I am lucky enough
to be called up, so I go.
And if I have to
work on catering,
and feed the entire
technical team
and the actors... to me
It is a great pleasure.
I don't know about catering,
two assorted packages of cookies
and a stew.
Never mind, let's do it.
Come on. What is it,
July, seven in the morning?
Let's do it.
No problem.
We do it because we
want to laugh our heads off,
because we want
to have a good time.
The proposal is
to go and have fun.
To embitter oneself with stories
there is life.
Because if I don't do it
I feel like my life
has no meaning
and I think it's a little bit
what happens to us all,
we need to have office
jobs in order to survive.
But then what we
really want to do
are these movies.
Be happy, fulfill your dreams.
Thanks, but now I'm going to buy
wine for dad.
I feel that
Generationally something
is going to happen
that is going to be cut,
But there will be a
group of stubborn people
who will continue filming.
And now, agents, I'm
going to condecorate you.
for your act of courage.
But hey, that's where
the kids start to do things,
that would be great.
Series of fourteen
seasons, ten chapters
each one, of something
like Plaga Zombie.
Maybe. Why not?
Sometimes I think like, Well,
younger people
are not interested
But then I see, for example,
the Fin de semana
sangriento contest
that more and more
people are signing up.
It seems that the
opposite is happening,
there are more people
wanting to do these things.
Yes, it seems to me that
it would make us very happy
if there are more movies.
It's always good
to have new people,
people who are
interested, collect people
from everywhere.
It's a passion.
You can't explain
it. It's like football.
Passion, baby.
Argentina needs a goal.
Cuchu takes it, they
can't take it away from him.
It could be, it could be...
He kicks...
Goal!
It is necessary,
so we have to keep doing it.
What you need is perseverance
and hard work to
make a movie with little
money, and a good one at that.
That is true and
it is not minor.
It's more about having
courage than anything else.
Life is very boring
if the only thing you do is
work an do nothing else,
and let the days go by.
I think it's also a way
to realize that we are alive.
It's dying every time
we make a movie
and say we're never
going to do this again,
This is tremendous,
we're having a hard time
and finish it,
and start thinking
about the next one.
But it's also a good excuse
to bring us all together.
The friends you make there,
are the real gem
of what these
films leave behind.
You don't feel like
you're on the screen,
you feel that it is all one.
You are watching a movie,
maybe in order to
see that kind of movie
you had to make it yourself.
And nobody is on the screen,
nobody is down there.
It is a hybrid in
the middle, which is
enjoying the cinema.
And that is priceless.
I mean it's like...
the most beautiful thing
that can happen to you in life.
The huge ones
They are huge,
really.
The huge ones
They are huge,
really.
And what do I say?
For you maybe
This is a common
and ordinary garment.
A simple studded vest.
But for those who don't know,
This is the vest that Cicho wore
in the acclaimed and
multi-award-winning Cichonga,
independent film.
A t-shirt we made
for the premiere of Cichonga
in 2013, when we
premiered it at the
Buenos Aires Rojo
Sangre in Argentina.
We had shown it before
at the Valdivia Festival.
This is the camera that
Chic Sensuale
photographer uses
in the film Profondo Trosso.
So look at it
taste it, love it.
This that I have here
It's the super helmet
of the super mega suit.
From the movie
Nacido para morir.
It was designed
by Nico Stillman.
And then Simon Ratziel
made it with resin.
Well, this is Gomoso
My partner from
Marisa and Gomoso.
This head is used by my partner
Nacho Joshas in the movie.
In some scenes
I used it because it is huge
and Nacho is almost
two meters tall,
and in the car scenes
and such, I played
both characters.
I played Gomoso and Marisa too.
Pablo made it complete
during the pandemic,
who is the director.
This cross...
My character Milita
Bari used it in the film
El Cazador by Georgina Zanardi
and Marcelo Leguiza.
I bought it, I bought it.
There are many things that I buy
at the Salvation Army.
Sometimes I go
as an art director
to buy clothes
and suddenly I find an object
and I say wow!
This can be useful to
me and on top of that
it's really cheap.
These are the hands of the
General Peron himself.
I got them clandestinely.
They were made by
the great Enzo Giordano.
This was made for a movie
called
Las almas del equinoccio
which we launched
in 2021 at BARS.
This little fetus was made by
Coti Pugliese and
is part of Tr3sh
in the ab*rtion clinic scene.
This is Carmen Vidal's hat,
when she enters a
depressive phase.
This detective,
After the death
of his best friend,
gets a job
at her neighborhood store,
which is Raul's warehouse.
So this is part
of Carmen Vidal's work uniform.
And well, it was made by
Art director Lucia Malandro,
It makes me laugh
to name her for this,
because she made a very
good job as an art director
considering the noir
style was achieved
for two pennies.
So this is not representative,
but that's what I had.
So you know,
Raul's warehouse.
It's not funny, but oh
well. I don't even open it.
because it is not
properly embalmed.
This belonged to an experiment
which was done
to generate, to create a soldier
and well, that's
going to be in a
movie, with some files
that Tata Yofre gave to us.
At one point in 2002
I learned that Perrone had done
a movie with a photo camera.
And it's not the same,
but I went looking for it
and what this camera marks
It's like the possibility
to record every day.
Because it was basically saying
Well, I can film longer,
I can spend less money
in production.
Simplifying audio capture.
It used to be a hustle.
So I brought this Sony.
Victor Maytland, pioneer of
Argentine porn, was also
pioneer of Argentine
porn parodies.
In the year 1980...
in the year 1989,
Can you edit that?
In the year 1989
he directed Las
tortugas mutantes pinjas
which inaugurates a trilogy
of porn parodies,
which in this case
are enthroned in this VHS
of that time
edition that I found
in a batch I bought
at a video store.
And it is a very,
very rare thing.
and that you can enjoy today.
But I have it, so I don't know.
how much they
are going to enjoy it.
Come to my house and see it.
This is the edition
of Buena onda,
which is just enough
controversial, that it
is called Good vibes
the editor of Las guachas.
La casa de las siete tumbas
El caso Laura
La venganza del
sexo by Emilio Vieyra.
El inquisidor de Lima
Furia infernal
Sangre de virgenes
And well, this is
Charly das de sangre.
Here we have a special guest
Nenuco, in his second
cinematographic participation.
Say hello Nenuco.
He appears in Agarren la pala!
He is a being
from another planet
whose power is
tanguear people,
That is, it makes
your pants disappear.
and sticks the
thong in your a*s.
He is Nestor, he is the worm
with which hamburgers are made
from fast food.
You see, there is
this urban legend,
about fast food...
Well, they are Nestor's slices.
He was part of the movie Grasa
and is performed
by Enzo Giordano,
which is one of the great
FXs artists in Argentine
bizarre cinema.
Here I present to you
this object from the
movie Malvineitor.
Nothing, it's a joke
that people celebrated it a lot.
The fact that in
The Second Malvinas w*r
the soldiers
from the homeland they
were drugged with dry c*m.
This painting actually
I painted more
than ten years ago,
But well, it appears
in El onanista
perturbado in one scene.
I was in a square with a friend
and my friend
thought that the Virgin of Lujn
was the Virgin of Lemon.
So I invented a Virgin of Lemon
which is like the
patron saint of misfits.
I think something
iconic about my films
It's the dicks in general
and this one in particular
It's the first one we used
professionally,
which was in Goreinvasion.
Blood and penises were used
everywhere and
it was established
as a Gorevision brand
that several have copied us,
of course.
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