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True Gore Documentary. dir. Monte Cazazza & Matthew Causey. Video. 75:00. Presented in person by Jack Sargeant, author of Deathtripping, Beat Cinema and the upcoming Cinema Contra Cinema. "That's my primary goal. To get on people's nerves. So I always try and have something in them which I'm sure will get on somebody's nerves. And it's not a success unless people ...or somebody... walks out, as far as I am concerned" - Monte Cazazza. One of the key figures in San Francisco's industrial scene of the 70s and 80s, Monte Cazazza was profiled in RE/Search's Industrial Culture Handbook and Pranks! for his relentlessly trangressive music, performances, and installations. Cazazza's scandalous film and video works have rarely screened in New York. True Gore is one of his most extreme and complex creations, a non-stop barrage of shocking found images, staged atrocities, and footage from collaborators Survival Research Labs and The Temple Ov Psychic Youth. "Opening with the credit "The Gore Brothers Present..." True Gore (1986) is the logical heir to the mondo movie, that bizarre genre that welds together the freak show, anthropological curiosity, and pure, salacious voyeurism. Directed by Matthew Causey, with Monte Cazazza credited as "creative consultant", the low-budget True Gore is reminiscent of the later, more notorious, mondo movies such as Faces Of Death (Conan Le Cilaire, 1979), and its many sequels..." Jack Sargeant |