November 2012
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an old fashioned achievement
a new poem by Surge Brainsgorge that appeared in Aorta Burst Zine #2
I murdered the giant and felt a great sense of accomplishment
jointed, peeled, boned, I oversaw the great deconstruction
of his corpse
viscera abandoned to lower beasts
the master organ the prize of the victor
my feelings entwined in monumental work of gods.
It took two men to lift the skull
rippling intraversaii of...
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"PASS THE HAM"
For reasons too tedious to mention, I’ve been a little slow on updating here. Soon some of the choicer bits from the Aorta Burst zines will be up for your perusal, and we have a night of killer fridges, killer butchers and killer songs lined up on the 13th of November at the Roxy with two should be cult classics that you won’t forget for a long time providing you can avoid blunt force...
September 2012
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visto il pugnale ed è morto di spavento
Hold on to your valuables and keep your intellectual property close, as Aorta Burst is back at the Roxy on Wednesday as part of Scala Beyond! We will be starting with a short talk by me on the history of the Italian comic up until the rise of the 1960’s anti-hero. Next a screening of Umberto Lenzi’s adaptation of ‘KRIMINAL’, and the gloriously shameless Turkish action...
August 2012
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Scala Beyond!
As part of the Scala Beyond season each film club, person or venue involved has created a declaration of who they are and what they’re about. These can be viewed here. As Aorta Burst’s is kind of an awkward sized thing, and most likely unreadable, it is best seen by clicking systematically through these handily placed links.
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Happy Birthday Umberto Lenzi
Aorta Burst personal favourite the great Umberto Lenzi is 80 today. We’re screening his super stylish thriller KRIMINAL on September the 12th as part of our Italian Comics Night for Scala Beyond. Got a chance to see Lenzi himself when I went to Brussels in February as part of the excellent Cinema Nova’s retrospective (where I took my sister to see sexy incest flick PARANOIA/ORGASMO...
July 2012
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"If I really believed in desire, I don't think it...
Last week, Aorta Burst was in attendance at the Roxy to see Savage Cineaste James screen a double bill of MARTIN and GANJA & HESS. I’d seen MARTIN a couple of times before so I had no real qualms about chowing down on chips and coleslaw while he fumbled around with his hypodermics in acts of murderous sexual relief (Martin, not James.) However, I was not prepared for...
"Here come the subliminals!"
Aorta Burst is back at the Roxy Bar and Screen on the 8th of August near London Bridge at 7pm. This time we are putting on a double-bill of low budget high creativity super rare VHS films, with Brett Pipers’ MYSTERIOUS PLANET and Mike Jittlov’s THE WIZARD OF SPEED AND TIME. Last month it was packed out, and here’s hoping to the same again, with animations, comics and more...
June 2012
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"That's for disgracing the fuckin' uniform." →
Sad to hear about the death of Richard Lynch today, a man who made a career out of playing fantastic villains. From one cult leader as Bernard Phillips in Larry Cohen’s superb GOD TOLD ME TO (in Aorta Burst’s programming ideas notebook) to another in BAD DREAMS and a reign as the evil King Cromwell in SWORD AND THE SORCERER, I have many fond memories of him cropping up during video...
May 2012
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A FEAR TOO BEAUTIFUL TO RESIST.
Aorta Burst is putting on a double bill of Nobuhiko Obayashi insanity at the Roxy Bar and Screen at London Bridge on the 11th of July with ‘HAUSU’ and ‘THE DRIFTING CLASSROOM.’ Tickets will be £3 and on sale soon. Go all crazy up here for it.
Joe
"Quit drinking buttermilk daiquiris in the closet,...
Aorta Burst is a new monthly film club, taking place at the marvellous Roxy Bar and Screen near London Bridge. It’s a place to come and see films that deserve to be screened, be they near-impossible-to-find forgotten relics of the VHS age, acknowledged cult classics, low-fi epics, commercial failures, transgressive, alternative, malapropsed, pretentious, shoddy, fantastic, misjudged,...
