- In presence of Pat Tremblay
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Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass
One day, in an isolated barn, John Glass awakes from a long cryogenic sleep with a huge hangover. Unaware of where, and more importantly, who he is, a recording tells him that the planet has not only been devastated by a world war, but also that aliens have invaded it. As if this wasn't enough, he was given a mission of paramount importance: to restore the atmosphere in order to save the few remaining representatives of the human race.
Pat Tremblay is a pain in the ass. On the one hand, he sets the scene of post-apocalyptic SF that is prompt to tickle the memory of post-Mad Max Italian B movies aficionados, and on the other, he writes a script reminiscent of hardcore video games such as Halo. Yet, he never goes where you would expect. Choosing instead to rub his audience the wrong way, the Canadian plays the minimalism card, the anti-epic adventure with a sense of absurdity and irreverence that is reminiscent of the Monty Pythons. By putting the future of the planet in the hands of this coward hero, Tremblay plays with the codes of contemporary popular cinema and takes pleasure in annihilating any commercial logic. A healthy approach, both refreshing and sometimes hilarious for a very dicey movie which, ultimately, appears to be much more daring than it looks.
Pat Tremblay was born in Montreal in 1972. Active on the local underground scene since 1991, the year he directed his short Hallucinatory, he has directed several shorts in Super8 or video as well as music videos for the metal bands Body Serpent and Rostrum. In 2006, he shoots the 'making of' the film The Beautiful Beast by Karim Hussain and directs his first feature, the psychedelic Heads of Control: The Gorul Baheu Brain Expedition. In 2011, apart from his second feature film, he directs the 'making of' the segment Vision Stains of the film The Theatre Bizarre, also by Karim Hussain.
Screening(s)
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Cinématographe 19 Oct 2011 20:30
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Cinématographe 22 Oct 2011 18:00