this film is amazing. Ari Gold has packed all 60 or less seconds of this film with humor and satire that far surpasses the mentality of most comedy today. It's short but it's so good. how can you resist? This man is unique, and the approach to this film is very refreshing. You will laugh, I promise.
6 Reviews
Succinctly scathing, tersely entertaining
blaker-216 September 1999
A succinct indictment of Hollywoodian Tarantino-worship, this glorious satire is a must-see for all ages and intelligence levels. At just one minute in length, this film is a perfectly succinct, tersely entertaining piece of work.
Incredible Mind, with phenomenal insight
welcometostrongbadia-31 August 2005
This film (along with its respective filmmaker) deserve every single award that it has garnered. It is only a one minute showing, yet it delivers a powerful message about the state of society today, and the tastes we as a culture have acquired. Its beautiful use of color and dynamic flow together to create a very simple, yet profound end product. Ari Gold is definitely one to keep your eye on. He was selected as one of "Filmmaker Magazine's "25 Faces to Watch" for the year 2001. "Culture" was named the "best sixty seconds of film" at Sundance. If you haven't seen it, it's available all over the internet. I suggest you check it out.
I love you Ari
Kerry Jean27 January 2000
"Culture" is a funny and poignant comment on culture.
t-bone-2716 September 1999
Ari Gold's film, "Culture," says more in sixty seconds about the state of late-20th-Century Western culture than many learned academicians have managed to do in sixty heady tomes on the subject. His use of primary colors, black and white, points up out obsession with "art," and we find ourselves taking the film very seriously, indeed. Then, as Mr. Gold begins to gyrate around, mimicing a man being ripped to pieces in a fusillade of bullets, one begins to recall how many critics called "Pulp Fiction" real art, and prostituted themselves to the pimps of violence (talk about mixed metaphors), and we laugh with him. The point is, with or without heavy cultural commentary, Mr. Gold has made a wonderful film
Ha-HA!
edgefilm20016 May 2002
What a nice short. A great exercise in the "less is more" aspect of short film making and a half tribute and half middle finger to Lars Von Trier and the Dogme 95. Its every ten-year-old boy alone in his room. I truly think someone should give this Ari Gold guy a feature. Helicopter was awesome and this was great too. You hear me studio brass!?! Where's Ari's film? Better yet, just give him a couple of mil. to make a film on his own. I'd love to see a feature from this guy.
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