Cascadian BM movie
I recently received an email from a Mr. Charles Spano, who is planing on creating an "experimental documentary" on NWBM. In his own words:
"This short, experimental documentary will combine B&W, slow-motion portraiture of members of the Cascadian Black Metal community with footage of them in wide, color landscapes, and non-digetic interview audio. I DO NOT in any way want to try to analyze or explain Black Metal culture, rather I’d like to give a deeply impressionistic view of members of this community. This will largely be accomplished with the emotive and aggrandizing qualities of portraiture which, using slow-motion, building sound design, and forest and snowy locations will have a genuine epic feeling."
At least it probably won't be as bad as "Until the Light Takes us". So if this is something you wanna see, go to his website and read more on it.
24 comments:
Sounds like a good idea to me.
You didn't like Until the Light Takes Us?
Why is that?
"At least it probably won't be as bad as "Until the Light Takes us"."
Oh look, i'm posting in a troll thread. 4/10.
they shouldn't really have a photo oh Ghaal as their promo photo should they? That's not a very enlightened start to things. Nice idea though, I'd screen it.
The premise behind until the light takes us was cool. However, the whole artist section was beyond boring and didn't really make any sense. Who had the bright idea to make it seem like they had to protect Faust's identity? Finally, it was all rehashed information. Some BM fans are like hobbits: they want information that is already known, with no contradictions and put down fair and square. They only redeeming aspect of it was Varg clearly not taking any part of it seriously.
I'm questioning this person's motives and general knowledge of the genre in general. He stated WITTR's 'Black Cascade' as his favorite album of last year and then the documentary title is 'Cascadian Black Metal'. My biggest question is if WITTR are even a good example of what Black Metal is about. They're a bunch of vegan hippies who happen to make interesting music...
they should stop making documentaries about black metal PERIOD!
So ALaraic, if "vegan hippies" aren't allowed to make black metal then is it only reserved for those that conform to being "grim" "trve" and "kvlt"?
So some "guerilla filmmaker" in rivethead goggles who thinks he's Werner Herzog heard Black Cascade and wants to make a documentary on black metal. Puts a picture of Ghaal on his promo page for "Cascadian black metal." Not interested.
This sounds so terrible.
Black metal is unfortunately getting bigger and bigger. It's not "underground" anymore, especially if a 14 year old Puerto Rican living in the slums of New England got into it.
It comes with the territory. Let's be adults about this:
If you don't like it, the only logical thing to do is hunt the people that made it down, kill them and then burn their corpses...
This makes me fucking sick. There's so much wrong with this. Wittr isn't the end all be all of "cascadian" black metal, if anything they've gone and fucked the whole thing up, because now fuckheads who don't understand it are downloading, and making documentaries on it now.
Agreed, but I think it's the approachable aspect of Wolves in the Throne Room that has opened black metal up beyond the underground.
To counter that, we should all make some fucked bm, that isn't approachable and irritates people.
Bitching won't solve anything: do something.
"Opening" up black metal is part of the problem. All Cascadian bands, except Wolves in the Throne room have gone way out of their way to keep their music underground, personal and important. Anyways, black metal isn't supposed to be approachable. It is supposed to irritate those who walk the right hand path.
I don´t think that WITTR actually "opened" black metal on purpose. It´s true that they got a lot of attention recently, but they keep doing exactly what they were doing before, at least music-wise. And yet they´re not as nearly big (in a commercial sense) as most of early norwegian bands that tried to "irritate" people in the past.
And, seriously, irritating people just for the sake of it is really what black metal is all about?
Anyway, putting a Ghaal photo to promote a Cascadian Black Metal movie is beyond stupidity.
We're in agreement. But my main point being that bitching won't solve anything. Go piss somebody off. Do your part to make it less approachable and extremely irritable.
I agree with Khaos on this one, outside media is so much pollution, unnecessary post match analysis and post-modern angling. What happened then was sincere and to an extent innocent, innocent in the sense that all main players were of a certain age and record sales and documentaries were the last thing on their minds (Pos.exception of Varg). If you know what is important about this music, you dont need a film made by people trying to fit an existential, bourgeoisies fix on it all...As for ''Until the light...'' Fenriz comes across as intelligent and creative, obviously troubled but integrity in bucketloads, Imortal? Oh dear.
Blacklodge, very well put. Hopefully they will stop making them. But, it's such an intriguing genre that people won't ignore it.
I too wish for the same think Khaos does; it's just highly unlikely that it will actually happen.
This is a bit of a disappointment, but not totally unexpected, actually. I don't particularly care that black metal seems to be "in," because when its popularity fades the scenester fags will move on to leach from something different and pretend that they know all about it, too. No big deal; nothing new.
What bothers me is that this "scene" of hippie, fixed-gear-bike-riding, vegan, faggot, urban dwelling band of scumfucks are given a voice to speak for "black metal" as a whole, and that people unfamiliar with the genre might take it as some form of definitive "intro" to black metal as a whole.
I'll continue to ignore crap like this, along with most of the "crust"/"anarchist" black metal bands whining and moaning from the USA (and I come from the USA, so I say that with full understanding of the criticism).
This blog is awesome apart from the whimpy Cascadian and "RABM" posts, so keep up the true spirit of black metal. :) \m/ \m/
Really how what he likes about bm is that it won't be diluted by the mainstream!
This guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about, and I hope that this film does not get made.
>Cascadian Black Metal
>A picture of Gaahl.
What the fuck.
the problem i see with this documentary is that it may very well only give people the impression that the cascadian black metal scene IS only made up of "hippie, fixed-gear-bike-riding, vegan, faggot, etc etc". unfortunatly, this is a stereo-type that only portrays perhaps a few bands from the scene. not that i see anything wrong with these kinds of people. but the truth of the matter is that the cascadian scene is much, much more than that. there is absolutly no way that this person will do the scene any justice.
there are just too many inter-connections between these acts, and truly only a small minority of folks really know what the fuck is going on in the cascades. this is just a bad idea and will ultimately missrepresent the scene greatly. such as wolves in the throneroom should absolutly NOT be a focus in any documentary. sure, they got some well produced albums, they tour, they do interviews... but when it comes down to it, they're just a small piece of a larger whole.
Roger Camden said...
You didn't like Until the Light Takes Us?
Why is that?
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i didn't,there it had its moments but they all looked too drug fucked and were each talking about it as though each of them had created it and held power to it. they all had their day but burzum still was the only person who made sense and still seemed to hold values and he's been in prison half his life
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