shoes and lace(s)

so i went on saturday to lace to see the movie viewings at 12:30 but didn't actually start til about 1:15. lame. the first video was a clip the filmmaker used to incorporate his film. it was in new guinea in the first thing you see is a pig being held by one person while another bashes it's face in repeatedly. the narrator was talking about his father sending him there and how he was practically useless and just a pain to the other members of a mercenary. it seemed like a documentary with many of the tribes people killing animals and cooking and dancing around. it didn't really intrigue me until the end the narrator says how he wanted to try cannibalism not for the sake of eating flesh but for the eroticism of throwing it up. i can't recall what the filmmaker actually presented as his own work, so i'm guessing it wasn't to memorable.

the next film was a close up shot of a little mexican boy riding a tricycle inside a church for a few minutes. it was a very slow film, with no sound and at the end it slowly faded away into slow motion. before the film was shown the filmmaker said that it was his three year old nephew on the trike. he said that he was shot and i don't know if he meant as in shot "let's start filming this bitch" or "go to the hospital and tell them you're shot". either way i was in full suspense because i truly thought that somewhere during this really slow moving tricycle ride in a holy place, a man was going to walk through and shot this little boy down. that didn't happen so i was relived and felt completely ripped off. i was glad that i didn't witness something horrible but felt cheated because of the suspense i was enduring.

then i saw two film about how people have sex and the first one was cute. it was a bunch of toy construction workers doing their jobs and then two workers are find themselves alone and pull out the "ram juice" and start kissing, blowing, and then fucking each other. everything then goes back to normal and everyone's back and working hard. i loved the innocence of using these really cute and familiar toys for something sexual. the next film was called cupcake and it showed a woman having what might be in orgy with three teenagers. the cupcake was the bases for a sexual theme and was used, battered, and eaten while sexual appetites were conceived. using dildos and reverse role playing until the lady was blowing all three of the guys in the end but they had dildos pulled out. not fully sure. i thought this was disgusting for the reason that i don't think food should be in aphrodisiac. food and sex to me is very disgusting because either you're food is going to be ruined or the sex itself. so i really couldn't enjoy this film at all (though i'm sure i wouldn't have either way)

the last video i saw was from erica cho, she was cutting out letters very carefully with an exacto knife and placing them inside bubble rap the she would also careful cut into. her final piece showed the words "are you me?" inside the bubbles. i can't remember the title specifically but i know it had something to do with space and i was interested from a tiny clip of someone drinking a drop of water in zero gravity. but i was let down because it was mainly the bubble wrap cutting and it seemed very tidious and had not much sound so it was a very slow film. it showed the struggles of just doing this process and how exact she felt she needed to be.

once it was two i bailed. i was hoping to see them all but they started late and i had some things to do.