(Charles Pinion‘s Killbillies, which you’ll discover all about below, is one of the great unfinished underground movies. It’s complex, uncompleted production involved a multitude of talents, not least of which was Joey Ramone whose involvement got a write-up in the infamous Page Six gossip column. The scan of that article that you see here was provided to the Underground Film Journal by Killbillies co-producer and actress Marina Lutz. But, this is Charles’s story… and his on-set pictures. Click the article and all pictures to embiggen.)
Underground Film Journal: Ok, so Madball is done and you’re moving into another film project, Killbillies? What’s the story behind that?
Charles Pinion: Killbillies‘ basic notion came from my friend George Cavano, an artist/musician in Gainesville, Florida. (His piece, “A Violent Release of a Large Body of Water” plays over the opening titles of Red Spirit Lake.
Underground Film Journal: Ok, so Madball is done and you’re moving into another film project, Killbillies? What’s the story behind that?
Charles Pinion: Killbillies‘ basic notion came from my friend George Cavano, an artist/musician in Gainesville, Florida. (His piece, “A Violent Release of a Large Body of Water” plays over the opening titles of Red Spirit Lake.
- 5/9/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Filmmaker Marina Lutz gives her adorable cat Rosie a huge kiss. Lutz directed the heartbreaking autobiographical documentary The Marina Experiment. Currently, she is writing her memoir.
Marina Lutz says:
I am writing my memoir, What I Did With My Life: the first 50 years, slowly and posting online at http://whatididwithmylife.com/. My intention is to cover my feelings about my father and how his behavior has affected everything I have done so far in my life. I have been describing it as “a hybrid creative non-fiction how-to self-hurt memoir narrative.” It will have lots more photographs from my archive, spanning through my punk rock years into adulthood.
Embiggen: Click here to see a larger photo of Marina and Rosie.
Watch: The Marina Experiment on the Underground Film Journal and read more — a lot more — at the Marina Experiment website.
Read: What I Did With My Life: the first 50 years.
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Marina Lutz says:
I am writing my memoir, What I Did With My Life: the first 50 years, slowly and posting online at http://whatididwithmylife.com/. My intention is to cover my feelings about my father and how his behavior has affected everything I have done so far in my life. I have been describing it as “a hybrid creative non-fiction how-to self-hurt memoir narrative.” It will have lots more photographs from my archive, spanning through my punk rock years into adulthood.
Embiggen: Click here to see a larger photo of Marina and Rosie.
Watch: The Marina Experiment on the Underground Film Journal and read more — a lot more — at the Marina Experiment website.
Read: What I Did With My Life: the first 50 years.
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- 3/12/2014
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
This week’s Must Read isn’t about underground film at all, but it’s absolutely fascinating reading. Potrzebie has Tom Conroy’s wonderful memoir about providing movie stills to lurid men’s magazines back in the ’60s and ’70s. If you like a good story about sleaze, drug use, questionable business practices and more, then you gotta check this one out. (P.S. Can you pick out Jack Nicholson on the above cover?)This is great news! A documentary filmmaker actually sued the IRS and won! Filmmaker Magazine recaps the “documentary filmmaking is not a hobby” case fought by Lee Storey.Movie reviewer cartoonist Rick Trembles takes on Ron Mann’s documentary Tales of the Rat Fink in a Motion Picture Purgatory strip that gives a good, concise background on artist Ed Roth in its own right.Swerve Calgary interviews Found Footage Film Festival curator Nick Prueher on the...
- 4/22/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
For the first 16 years of her life, Marina Lutz's every moment was filmed, even the most intimate. What was her father's motive – and when does art become exploitation?
When Marina Lutz, then aged 37, lost her mother to dementia 10 years after losing her father, she began the slow process of going through their storage. There she found box after box of reel-to-reel audio tape, Super-8 films and more than 10,000 photographs. They were all of her, each one taken or shot by her father, Abbot Lutz, microscopically documenting the first 16 years of her life through the prism of his lens. There were pictures of her on the lavatory, pictures of her naked as a pre-verbal child, some in which her hand was innocently holding her genitals; pictures of her in her underwear as a pubescent girl and footage of her asleep with her teddies, tossing and turning while having a dream.
When Marina Lutz, then aged 37, lost her mother to dementia 10 years after losing her father, she began the slow process of going through their storage. There she found box after box of reel-to-reel audio tape, Super-8 films and more than 10,000 photographs. They were all of her, each one taken or shot by her father, Abbot Lutz, microscopically documenting the first 16 years of her life through the prism of his lens. There were pictures of her on the lavatory, pictures of her naked as a pre-verbal child, some in which her hand was innocently holding her genitals; pictures of her in her underwear as a pubescent girl and footage of her asleep with her teddies, tossing and turning while having a dream.
- 4/16/2011
- by Louise Carpenter
- The Guardian - Film News
The autobiographical documentary The Marina Experiment by Marina Lutz, which is embedded in full above, is extremely Nsfw and distills down into 17 minutes a lifetime of child abuse. This is a difficult, painful film to watch, but not in ways that are entirely obvious. When one thinks of abuse, two forms immediately come to mind: Physical and verbal. But, Lutz’s abuse by her father was entirely photographic.
The film opens with modern-day shots of the obsessive amount of photographs, audio recordings and home movies that professional photographer Abbot Lutz took of his daughter, Marina. The stacks of bins filled with this documentary evidence is astounding. Then, when the film begins to show exactly what that evidence is of, it becomes sickening.
While there are some standard holiday and vacation photographs that any father may take of his daughter, many others are wholly inappropriate, especially those of a young teenage...
The film opens with modern-day shots of the obsessive amount of photographs, audio recordings and home movies that professional photographer Abbot Lutz took of his daughter, Marina. The stacks of bins filled with this documentary evidence is astounding. Then, when the film begins to show exactly what that evidence is of, it becomes sickening.
While there are some standard holiday and vacation photographs that any father may take of his daughter, many others are wholly inappropriate, especially those of a young teenage...
- 11/22/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The teasing is over! This here is the real deal. The moment we wait all year for: The lineup for the powerful, the mighty Boston Underground Film Festival, which is set to run March 25 to April 1. Now in its 12th year, Buff shows no sign of slowing down or taking it easy. In fact, this might be their most demented and transgressive edition yet.
There are homages to Giallo horror, tributes to the grand grindhouse tradition of sleaze and exploitation, sex and violence galore — both separately and together — plus, a resurrected ’80s slasher classic that all combine into an epic celebration of everything that is vicious and twisted in this world. But, in a fun way, ya know.
Alas, I haven’t seen any of the feature films that are playing this year, so I can’t offer any special recommendations of those. Although, there are many (most) that I...
There are homages to Giallo horror, tributes to the grand grindhouse tradition of sleaze and exploitation, sex and violence galore — both separately and together — plus, a resurrected ’80s slasher classic that all combine into an epic celebration of everything that is vicious and twisted in this world. But, in a fun way, ya know.
Alas, I haven’t seen any of the feature films that are playing this year, so I can’t offer any special recommendations of those. Although, there are many (most) that I...
- 3/12/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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