Do Elephants Pray - Raindance Film Festival

AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE
SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER AT 3:30PM
From a striptease created by Edison on an early camera to Ilsa:
She Wolf of the SS, sensational cinema has always had a place
in the film industry. Grindhouse cinemas show exploitation films:
movies featuring extreme sexual themes, drug-use, or violence,
which advertisers could exploit to bring people into movie
theatres. The history of sensational cinema is partly the story of
independent cinema, and partly that of unabashed capitalism.
Many genres of exploitation film started out as adult-only
cinema, telling morality tales as a cover for the exploration of
taboo subject matter. Sex, violence and race were highlighted
in exploitation films before they became mainstream topics of
discussion. Grindhouse cinemas survived on a young audience
who wanted boundaries pushed and weren’t too concerned about
critical opinions.
Tracking the rise of the exploitation film from pre to post
censorship laws, American Grindhouse explores the development
of the many sub-genres of exploitation films and looks at the
classics like Last House on the Left, Shaft and Teenage Hellcats.
Told through archive film footage and interviews with exploitation
filmmakers, American Grindhouse takes audiences on a tour of
the most outrageous and taboo films of the past century. BE
Country USA Running Time 82 mins Format DigiBeta Director/Producer Elijah
Drenner DoP Dan Greene Featuring Joe Dante, Robert Forster, David Hess Print
Source Sky Arts Email simon.talfourd@contentfilm.com
18TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
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