{"id":6018,"date":"2011-01-04T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T06:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2011-01-04T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T06:24:26","slug":"knout-a-film-by-deco-dawson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2011\/01\/04\/knout-a-film-by-deco-dawson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Knout – a Film by Deco Dawson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/center>I found the work of filmmaker Deco Dawson<\/a> via Mike Everleth at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film<\/a>. This is one of the films Dawson has on his Vimeo page<\/a> and it’s a brutal but gorgeous piece that suggests the violence one can commit against one’s self.<\/p>\n

The film is all gnarled and fuzzy and stained. It looks like something shot in the twenties and dug up in a basement somewhere. Right around the 8:15 mark there’s a sequence of images that are just simply stunning. The actress, Jenovia Tretiak, is frenzied and beautifully insane. The original score by Patric Caird is perfect and hair-raising.<\/p>\n

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I found the work of filmmaker Deco Dawson via Mike Everleth at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film. This is one of the films Dawson has on his Vimeo page and it’s a brutal but gorgeous piece that suggests the violence one can commit against one’s self. The film is all gnarled and fuzzy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1081,114,1458,1562],"tags":[807,907,566,852],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avant-garde-film","category-film","category-short-films","category-underground-film-2","tag-avant-garde","tag-black-white","tag-experimental","tag-underground"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t