Philippe Grandrieux’s Sombre (1998) is harsh in every one of New French Extremity’s often loathsome ways, but is SUCH an impressive distinction of sight and sound. A visual slurry of shapes-in-shadows and metamorphic focuses. Photography mimicking a nightmare’s echolocation.
not a liminal space film, but i think Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe captured the idea of being trapped in a place that feels inescapable and endless the best in Woman in the Dunes (1964)
What happened to theater etiquette? I went to see the backrooms with my mom and the other people in the theater we were in picked her up and started ripping her limbs off and tossing them around the room to each other