Charles Pinion 2008
“In the nineties, the video movie revolution seemed to be the promised land for filmmakers of non-mainstream genres. Essentially, drive-ins were finished--those that did remain only showed Hollywood blockbusters. Most cities were even without a Saturday afternoon horror show/host. But there was a buzz amongst fans of the underground that something bolder lay ahead. Using low budget video, directors could make their movies without fear of losing Hollywood $$$$. Right-wing conservatives couldn’t keep their movies from being in the crappy mall multiplex because directors were going to produce/distribute their works themselves. It all sounded good. Unfortunately, it hasn’t quite turned out that way. “Here at Video Crypt, we see too many titles issued that lack imagination, style, or purpose. Many aren’t taking risks and those that do often don’t possess an artistic vision. The technology keeps getting better as imaginations seemingly regress. “It wasn’t always that way. In the early days of Video Crypt we were excited over the ultra low-budget works of John Michael McCarthy (Damselvis Daughter Of Helvis & Teenage Tupelo), Scooter McCrae (Shatter Dead), Howard S. Berger/Matthew Howe (Original Sins), and Charles Pinion (Red Spirit Lake and We Await). All these directors made wild, in your face movies that not only took on taboo subjects (religion, sex, violence, and culture clashes) - - but were also extremely entertaining. “But none impressed us more than Charles Pinion. Arriving in New York from Gainesville, Florida for the tail end of the Cinema Of Transgression scene--made famous by people such as Richard Kern, Nick Zedd, Beth B., and Lydia Lunch--Pinion was a painter/printmaker, high school teacher turned punk rock frontman, who was now an actor and director. It wasn’t very long before Pinion took the Cinema Of Transgression’s subversive elements and mixed them with inspired drive-in madness.” Chip Lamey, Videocrypt www.videocrypt.comRED%20SPIRIT%20LAKE.htmlWE%20AWAIT.htmlhttp://www.videocrypt.comshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2
“Charles Pinion... is engaged in a similar polemic to Stewart Home; what he does reincorporates trash film and mass new production techniques.” Jack Sargeant FRINGECORE magazine (www.fringecore.com)http://www.jacktext.nethttp://www.fringecore.comshapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1
“Charles Pinion has been one of my favorite filmmakers for many years. No one captures the dream state — supra-normal narrative twists, terrifying horror, animalistic eroticism, outrageous humor and child-like wonder — better than he. Weaving these disparate elements into seamless storytelling makes a Pinion film like no other.” Michael Simmons http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-simmons/shapeimage_4_link_0
Updated 2.04,08
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twisted issues twisted issues twisted issues twisted issues RED SPIRIT LAKE twisted issues we await INFERENTIAL PICTURES THE PULP VIDEO COLLECTION:
Each OFFICIAL LIMITED EDITION BOOTLEG in the PULP VIDEO COLLECTION is a hand-made NTSC all-region DVD-R, numbered and signed by Charles Pinion, in editions of 313 copies. $20 ppd/$25.00 foreign, to: Charles Wing, 5959 Franklin Ave., #409, Los Angeles, CA 90028
• My producing partner, Michael Murray, and I are shooting SAVIOR OF THE PLEASURE BEAST (part of the “Norm Feller”/MADBALL triptych) in a sharply indefinite future. I would love for Robert Mollohan and Rick Hall to star. Rick will be recognized by RED SPIRIT LAKE fans as the bald bad guy (below) who is beguiled into disrobing in the icy wilderness, and dies naked in the snow...http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1121555/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxmYj11fHBuPTB8cT1taWNoYWVsIG11cnJheXxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8cnM9ZnxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=4;ft=24;fm=1http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1855099/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9cm9iZXJ0IG1vbGxvaGFufGZ0PTF8bXg9MjB8bG09NTAwfGNvPTF8cnM9ZnxodG1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20http://www.toestubber.com/shapeimage_17_link_0shapeimage_17_link_1shapeimage_17_link_2
Trailers for WE AWAIT RED SPIRIT LAKE and TWISTED ISSUES are viewable on their respective pages! And check out clips from TWO-HEADED COW, the documentary I edited about legendary Flat Duo Jets guitarist Dexter Romweber !!!WE%20AWAIT.htmlRED%20SPIRIT%20LAKE.htmlTWISTED%20ISSUES.htmlEDITING.htmlshapeimage_18_link_0shapeimage_18_link_1shapeimage_18_link_2shapeimage_18_link_3
(not so) NEWS: (Left) Hanging with the brilliant David Aaron Clark. David was in the Spirit Drive scene (below) in WE AWAIT. Rick Hall in RED SPIRIT LAKE.
Photo by John Nystrom