A video document of New York City on the eve of Times Square’s violent transition into modernity, The Gods of Times Square is a singular street-level snapshot allowing you to literally watch an entire era of the city vanish before your eyes like a fading Polaroid.
Italy, 1980 - One week after its premiere, the film Cannibal Holocaust is banned in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Italy, the reels are seized by Italian authorities, and director Ruggero Deodato is hauled before court in order to prove that the “documentary” murders depicted in it are fake. Facing life in prison, Deodato explains how he staged the realistic-looking deaths, and then produces his actors on an Italian TV show, breaking their 1-year media silence contract in doing so. Despite this, his film has been mistaken for snuff in America as recently as 1993, and the uncut version remains banned in the UK.
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The late researcher and radio show host is considered by many to be the queen of conspiriology, with theories on nearly every facet of societal ills. Tim Canale’s first film, which is mostly comprised of Brussell’s 1987 lecture at UC Santa Cruz, is a rare opportunity to see Lady Mae herself going on one of her patented esoteric rants against all the nefarious government plots that are heralding our imminent descent into a tyrannical post-capitalistic police state.
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