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Comments: This is the "Backstory" sequence from the ultra low budget horror feature film I directed called The Curse of El Charro. It was my first feature, and Paramount (!) bought it and distributed it on DVD. (you can go over to amazon and pick it up if you feel generous). I didn't know what the hell I was doing but it has some cool bits in it, hot chicks covered in blood, lemmy, and is lots of fun if you dig slasher films. The backstory is excerpted here in short film form, and was screened as an experimental film in festivals. Thi is a surreal flashback-ish scene where the curse on her bloodline is revealed to Maria, the heroine of the film. The idea was to make it look like an old, lost expressionist film - maybe culled together from several old nitrate prints which are damaged to various degrees. It references german expressionist silent cinema, as well as russian propaganda and has a strong spanish catholic iconography. It features a variety of techniques, stop motion (of the pixilation variety) shot on 3200 speed film with a 35mm slr, 24p dv up res-ed to HD, computer generated animation, scanned antique photos, some hand done artwork, snapshots, and polaroid. We were actually supposed to shoot this during production, but the film was so low budget that we didn't have time, so I decided to do it as an animation, which was all for the better, because stylistically, it was the section most closely related to my own aesthetic. I recorded my score with a full orchestra. I am very fond of the music for this sequence. I hope you guys dig it.