Long Pigs

Running time: 91 mins

World Premiere

A pitch-black comedy and a condemning view of how documentary filmmaking can easily turn into ghoulish exploitation; Chris Power and Nathan Hynes?s Long Pigs is a cheerfully grotesque provocation that might challenge your stomach as well as your mind.

Anthony McAlistar (Anthony Alviano) is a jovial fellow who just happens to give Hannibal Lecter a run for his money in the cannibal serial-killer territory. Introduced preparing his own unsavory type of meal, Anthony regales the camera with philosophical anecdotes, aware that, as the subject of a documentary being shot by a pair of young filmmakers, he?s the star of the program.

The satire grows more pungent as the story progresses and the line between comedy and horror becomes thinner, calling into question not just Anthony?s horrific actions but the role the camera plays in them. When does the media?s fascination with watching become dangerous? And, when it comes to human lives, where is the line drawn between documentary and subject?


Fernando F. Croce

Preceded by: Free Range; dir. Steve Friendship; 10min.; You are what you eat...Once you've butchered your first lodger, eating meat 3 times a day can get dull. How can Dave and Charlotte liven up meal times with only 7 pence.

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