“I can’t breathe,” 19-year-old Talib Ben Hassi (Jack Pedersen) shouts repeatedly, as police officers hold him down in a cell. With those three words right at the beginning of Shorta, writer/directors’ Frederik Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm evoke the phrase used by Eric Garner and many other African-Americans before they died at the hands of…
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Fando y Lis (1968)
Fando Y Lis first published by EyeforFilm For surrealist filmmakers, creating a public riot used to be the equivalent of trashing a hotel room for today’s rock stars – a necessary rite of passage to announce your credentials as a scandalous outsider who holds society’s conventional values in contempt. Luís Buñuel and Salvador Dali did it…