Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska's The Children of the Dead is showing February 20 - March 20, 2020 on Mubi in the series Direct from the Berlinale.Above: Behind the scenes of The Children of the Dead. Photo by Ditz FejerIn 2016 we were invited by the Austrian art and performance festival, steirischer herbst, to make a project in the Styrian countryside. We knew we wanted to ground ourselves to a particular place—to go deep, to make something which would be rooted in landscape and land, time and tide. We were drawn to the heimatfilme and bergfilme genres, that naively celebrate landscape and rural life (in reaction to the horrors of WWII) and we were looking for a Austrian text to build this work upon... when someone suggested we should read Elfriede Jelinek’s Die Kinder der Toten, a 666-page epic entirely rooted in the Styrian landscape, a book in which the...
- 2/12/2020
- MUBI
As the calendar creeps closer to the fall, it's almost time for another Fantastic Fest in Austin, and to get moviegoers excited for the 15th annual celebration of cinema, the first wave of eclectic titles have been announced, including In the Tall Grass (Vincenzo Natali's adaptation of Stephen King and Joe Hill's novella of the same name), Ant Timpson's Come to Daddy, Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, Alexandre O. Philippe's documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien, and a restoration of Ed Hunt's Bloody Birthday.
Press Release: Austin, TX — 30th July, 2019 — Reaching the milestone of fifteen years, Fantastic Fest continues to champion groundbreaking international genre films, bringing a diverse array of global filmmakers to Austin in a highly-controlled explosion of curated cinematic mayhem.
Opening the festival will be the Us Premiere of the brilliant Taika Waititi’s hilarious and tender anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit, in which...
Press Release: Austin, TX — 30th July, 2019 — Reaching the milestone of fifteen years, Fantastic Fest continues to champion groundbreaking international genre films, bringing a diverse array of global filmmakers to Austin in a highly-controlled explosion of curated cinematic mayhem.
Opening the festival will be the Us Premiere of the brilliant Taika Waititi’s hilarious and tender anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit, in which...
- 7/30/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
The hills are alive, with the sound of music (also mastication and the moaning of zombies) in Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska’s experimental, dialogue-free, home-movie-style riff on Elfriede Jelinek’s “Die Kinder Der Toten” (The Children of the Dead). A seminal text in Jelinek’s native Austria, the 1995 book has never been translated into English, and so the directors, who are part of New York-based performance group the Nature Theater of Oklahoma were reportedly working from a sort of CliffsNotes version of this sprawling, complex, metatextual novel — one that had hitherto been dubbed “unfilmable.”
That’s an assessment barely contradicted by Copper and Liska’s tiresome adaptation, which starts out buoyantly inventive but quickly turns grating, its one-joke premise wearing thinner as the grotesquerie is layered on thicker. Initially, however, it provides an aesthetic surprise, shot in deliciously grainy Super-8 footage, set to Wolfgang Mitterer’s bizarro-folksy score and...
That’s an assessment barely contradicted by Copper and Liska’s tiresome adaptation, which starts out buoyantly inventive but quickly turns grating, its one-joke premise wearing thinner as the grotesquerie is layered on thicker. Initially, however, it provides an aesthetic surprise, shot in deliciously grainy Super-8 footage, set to Wolfgang Mitterer’s bizarro-folksy score and...
- 4/19/2019
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The Children of the Dead — a zombie home movie shot on Super 8 and directed by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska of New York's Nature Theater of Oklahoma theater ensemble — has snatched the top critic's prize for best film in the Forum sidebar of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Fipresci, the international association of film critics, named Children of the Dead the best film in the 2019 Forum lineup. The movie, which was produced by Austrian art-house provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Paradise: Faith, Dog Days), proudly embraces the tradition of trash cinema, using amateur actors, original Alpine locations and grainy ...
Fipresci, the international association of film critics, named Children of the Dead the best film in the 2019 Forum lineup. The movie, which was produced by Austrian art-house provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Paradise: Faith, Dog Days), proudly embraces the tradition of trash cinema, using amateur actors, original Alpine locations and grainy ...
- 2/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Children of the Dead — a zombie home movie shot on Super 8 and directed by Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska of New York's Nature Theater of Oklahoma theater ensemble — has snatched the top critic's prize for best film in the Forum sidebar of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Fipresci, the international association of film critics, named Children of the Dead the best film in the 2019 Forum lineup. The movie, which was produced by Austrian art-house provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Paradise: Faith, Dog Days), proudly embraces the tradition of trash cinema, using amateur actors, original Alpine locations and grainy ...
Fipresci, the international association of film critics, named Children of the Dead the best film in the 2019 Forum lineup. The movie, which was produced by Austrian art-house provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Paradise: Faith, Dog Days), proudly embraces the tradition of trash cinema, using amateur actors, original Alpine locations and grainy ...
- 2/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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