Andrew Pulver 

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Andrew Pulver: Two programmes of short films mining the same sort of themes: family dysfunction and consumerism
  
  

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To mark the release of Jonathan Caoutte's Tarnation, the Independent Cinema Office have put together two programmes of short films mining the same sort of themes: family dysfunction and consumerism. Putting aside the question as to whether Tarnation is worth this kind of reverence, what we have here is a mixed bag.

Why Don't You Love Me? is a funny five-minute splicing-together of "mother" moments from Hitchcock films; The Pharoah's Belt, on the other hand, is a collage of video graphics with no clearly discernible purpose. But the film-makers all get points for being interesting.

 

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