Slaxx
Slaxx | Elza Kephart | CA 2020 | 78 Min
| DCP
Filmcasino
Sa,19.09.▸23:00
Filmcasino
Matinée of the 1000 knives
Matinée of the 1000 knives
Sa,26.09.▸10:00
A hip and happening fashion store goes into lockdown overnight to keep this season’s it-piece from the public eye until its release date the next morning. But the jeans, which automatically adapt to individual body shapes, come alive and start killing off the locked-in sales clerks. Elza Kephart’s Slaxx gloriously harkens back to anti-consumerist B movies from the golden days of Reaganomics, like Larry Cohen’s The Stuff. And the scene with several pairs of jeans dancing Bollywood-style through the salesroom elevates this satirical splatter grenade to one of the year’s best midnight movies.
Elza Kephart
writes and directs horror and fantasy films and has been working in the film industry for more than twenty years. She holds a BFA from Emerson College (Boston) and the Canadian Film Center’s Director’s Lab. At 24, she wrote and directed her first feature, Graveyard Alive – A Zombie Nurse in Love. It played in more than twenty international film festivals including Fantasia, Fantasporto, and Sitges, winning the Kodak Cinematography Award at the Slamdance Film Festival. Her second feature film, Go in the Wilderness, premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, played in various international film festivals, and is being distributed on various platforms, including iTunes. Kephart has attended the TIFF Talent Lab, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the Telluride Student Symposium. She is one of the cofounders of the Montreal chapter of Film Fatales and one of the cofounders and coordinators of Extinction Rebellion Québec.
writes and directs horror and fantasy films and has been working in the film industry for more than twenty years. She holds a BFA from Emerson College (Boston) and the Canadian Film Center’s Director’s Lab. At 24, she wrote and directed her first feature, Graveyard Alive – A Zombie Nurse in Love. It played in more than twenty international film festivals including Fantasia, Fantasporto, and Sitges, winning the Kodak Cinematography Award at the Slamdance Film Festival. Her second feature film, Go in the Wilderness, premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema, played in various international film festivals, and is being distributed on various platforms, including iTunes. Kephart has attended the TIFF Talent Lab, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the Telluride Student Symposium. She is one of the cofounders of the Montreal chapter of Film Fatales and one of the cofounders and coordinators of Extinction Rebellion Québec.
Screenings
Filmcasino
Sa,19.09.▸23:00
Filmcasino
Matinée of the 1000 knives
Matinée of the 1000 knives
Sa,26.09.▸10:00
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