Collage of 35mm movies trailers - action and pornographic pictures. “An experimental film made out of cut ups from pornos and action films trailers. The action is made out of splinters of images fragments inserted in one another. It is not only the greatest found footage film ever made to this day, but also a visual proposal on American mythologies made out of motifs and the texture of images themselves. The Action has the force of one's last vital "shout" (yet the film is silent) made out of tears, splices, scratches reminding us of the old tired films of the Parisian neighborhoods (that are gone nowadays) and that were screening mostly action or pornos films of all kind (films such as Grinhouse by Rodrigues and Tarantino have recently paid a tribute to them). What constitutes the ambiguity of Matarasso's film relies both on the criticism of the existing commercial film industry and paradoxically on the homily of the presence of sexual bodies in those same films. He responds to those with a fierce, passionate and tactile work on film that becomes strongly organic. It resembles a woodwork, and then a mosaic, and finally a goldsmith piece. Those images are both bringing us back to a social and political critique as well as a meditation on cinema's genre ; they interweave and form imbrications within one another, exclude or melt into each other to finally exhaust all the formal dynamic of a powerful industrial 'photogenism' that transforms bodies into energy to be spent.” Written by Derek Woolfenden
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