Electric Sheep

A deviant view of Cinema

Autumn 08 Issue

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Electric sheep always impresses with a solid balance of in depth examinations of themes and trends within cinema and good coverage of festivals, reviews and unusual new releases.

The Autumn 08 issue focuses on “Cruel Games” – Violent sport and sadistic power plays and gives quite in depth analysis of films ranging from Death Race, Battle Royale, Cube and Rollerball through to Funny Games and 13 (Tzamati). The analysis is informed, intelligent and thought provoking. There are also are some interesting interviews along the way – the interview with Dennis Gansel on “The Wave” was intriguing. The Wave was based on a written account of a school experiment when a teacher devised a class scenario to explore the development of fascist tendencies, the problem is that it worked too well and spawned a right wing school movement !

There is also an interview with Rod Dickinson on his restaging of the Obedience game and its relevance to issues regarding power and violence.

Also included in this issue is Cinerama looking at various film festivals, Videodrome examining new releases of offbeat cinema ranging from Black White + Gray to Vampyr and some other interviews and columns.