Episode 386: Begotten (1990)
The Projection Booth Podcast
The Projection Booth
4.8 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2018
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Heather Drain and Ben Buckingham join Mike to discuss experimental films, music videos, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Christopher Media. Let's make some noise. |
| 0:10.8 | A spectacular one of a kind. |
| 0:16.8 | A seductive mystery. |
| 0:18.6 | A raw shock test for the adventurous eye. |
| 0:23.6 | Oh, A seductive mystery. A raw shock test for the adventurous eye. A remarkable achievement which draws together the stories of epic literature, the boundaries of poetry and experimental film, and breaks all molds, furnishing celluloid with new possibilities. Wordlessly recalls the spirit of Samuel Beckett's darkest parables. These visions These visions of suffering give way to equally impassioned images of rebirth. |
| 1:45.0 | A hallucinatory masterpiece that invades our subconscious and compels us to experience rather than witness. A cinematic force that bears further observation. A metaphysical splatter film. |
| 2:10.6 | There is no denying marriage's vision or his conviction. |
| 2:30.9 | Startling, grotesque and revolutionary. |
| 2:37.0 | Points of floodlight in those places we choose not to look. Brilliant, unbearable and unforgettable, an extraordinarily original accomplishment. |
| 2:53.6 | Makes eraser head seem like Ernest saves Christmas. |
| 3:00.6 | A triumph of lyrical grotesquery, you will not forget it. |
| 3:10.3 | No names. |
| 3:13.3 | No dialogue. |
| 3:16.3 | No compromises. |
| 3:20.3 | No exit. |
| 3:32.0 | Nobody will get through begotten without being marked. ... Welcome to the projection booth. I'm your host, Mike White. Back in the booth with me is Ms. Heather Drain. |
| 3:55.9 | Hello, hello. Also with us this week is Mr. Ben Buckingham. |
| 3:59.8 | Hello. |
| 4:01.0 | This week we are discussing E. Elias Maridge's Begotten. |
| 4:05.9 | Released in 1990, the film is an experimental narrative. |
| 4:09.6 | It's about, I'm not really sure what it's about, but I hope we're able to come to some sort of consensus by the end of this episode. |
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