Father not only doesn’t know best, he wants to commit the worst: Kill his only son in G.J. Echternkamp‘s sick short film Captain Fork. Can humor be mined from a selfish single daddy having dreams of infanticide? Echternkamp happily trots along the cliff of “good” bad taste without falling over in this slick, well-executed — and hilarious — short movie.
What makes Captain Fork extra intriguing is that Echternkamp previously directed an autobiographical documentary that chronicled his own personal paternal issues. Frank & Cindy detailed the director’s unusual home life where his father figure was a washed up rock star.
Certainly, one doesn’t want to compare the genial, kind-hearted Frank to the monster in Captain Fork, but it’s hard not to wonder if some issues of parental abandonment didn’t inform the initial genesis of the short comedy, whether or not Echternkamp is aware of it.
Regardless, the...
What makes Captain Fork extra intriguing is that Echternkamp previously directed an autobiographical documentary that chronicled his own personal paternal issues. Frank & Cindy detailed the director’s unusual home life where his father figure was a washed up rock star.
Certainly, one doesn’t want to compare the genial, kind-hearted Frank to the monster in Captain Fork, but it’s hard not to wonder if some issues of parental abandonment didn’t inform the initial genesis of the short comedy, whether or not Echternkamp is aware of it.
Regardless, the...
- 1/16/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 14th annual Antimatter Film Festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada is an epic 9-day event of expanded cinema performances, feature-length documentaries an a ton of experimental short films and festivals.
There are seven feature documentaries screening including Marie Losier‘s hit The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye, a profile of the pandrogenous entity, Breyer P-Orridge; and Chris Metzler & Lev Kalman’s popular Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, about the legendary ska punk band. Plus, there’s Adele Horne’s And Again and more.
On the expanded cinema front, Antimatter welcomes retrospectives of Kerry Laitala, who will be presenting a selection of her 3D light and motion experiments; and Roger Beebe will screen a series of multi-projector performances.
As for the short films, the real highlight of the fest is a screening of Jaimz Asmundson‘s trippy and powerful The Magus, a fictional/documentary hybrid of his father’s Satanic painting process.
There are seven feature documentaries screening including Marie Losier‘s hit The Ballad of Genesis & Lady Jaye, a profile of the pandrogenous entity, Breyer P-Orridge; and Chris Metzler & Lev Kalman’s popular Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone, about the legendary ska punk band. Plus, there’s Adele Horne’s And Again and more.
On the expanded cinema front, Antimatter welcomes retrospectives of Kerry Laitala, who will be presenting a selection of her 3D light and motion experiments; and Roger Beebe will screen a series of multi-projector performances.
As for the short films, the real highlight of the fest is a screening of Jaimz Asmundson‘s trippy and powerful The Magus, a fictional/documentary hybrid of his father’s Satanic painting process.
- 10/12/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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