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Psychomontage (1963)
A cinematic Rorscach test.
As no information seems to be available on this film, I can't tell you much about it's origins or the makers intentions other than I believe it was intended as a kind of cinematic Rorscach (Ink Blot) Test,designed to provoke a telling reaction in the viewer.Commisioned by Dr's Phyllis & Eberherd Kronhausen (presumably both psychiatrists )& concocted out of mostly stock footage (zoo animals, collapsing chimney stacks, etc) plus some original footage by Antony Balch, at first glance this looks like a parody of pretentious 60's 'Art' shorts as the film progresses, however, shots of semi-naked women frolicking with dogs juxtaposed with the sound of agitated monkeys & probing insects inter-cut with shots of a human tongue (actually a close-up of a sweet pepper) amongst others, generate a distinct feeling of unease -well in this viewer at least (make of that what you will... ) All in all a fascinating artifact.Sadly, not available on D.V.D. or V.H.S.
The Hot Pearl Snatch (1966)
A must see for sleaze-hounds everywhere.
" The Hot(Pearl)Snatch " is a wonderfully impoverished & faintly tawdry piece of boys-only,all-action,one-fisted manly adventure featuring 'wild' lesbian orgies, Beatnik painting, strip-tease artists, a Caribbean Carnival, suicide, 'native' dancing, Xavier Cugat, greed, avarice,lechery,pearls,girls,seduction & the act... and all shot in lurid colour .
In a bar in the Caribbean an American 'adventurer' meets a booze-sodden, lascivious old man, who tells a tawdry tale of lesbian seduction, secret pearl beds & cannibal natives. While the the old man is preoccupied by a stripper (& mumbling incessantly about "poils & goils...") the 'adventurer' steals his treasure map & departs for the pearl beds. Whereupon follows a tale of seduction, betrayal, nudity & violence... Also scored with some great music.