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Author Jack Sargeant

Jack Sargeant

Author Jack Sargeant’s (PhD) latest books are Flesh and Excess: On Underground Film (Amok Books, 2016), and Against Control (Eight Millimetres, 2015). His previous works include Deathtripping: The Extreme Underground and Naked Lens: Beat Cinema (like Deathtripping now in its third English language edition). He has written on film and culture for numerous books, anthologies and journals, and has written introductions for works by Lydia Lunch, Romain Slocombe, and Joe Coleman. Jack has frequently appeared as a documentary interviewee in films including Blank City, The Advocate For Fagdom and Llik Your Idols. In addition he has lectured on underground film and culture, beat culture, William Burroughs and many other topics across the world. He has curated numerous film festival programmes, media events, and exhibitions, and he is currently program director for the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. See: http://www.jacktext.net/ / http://eightmillimetres.bigcartel.com/product/against-control / http://www.amokbooks.com/

american extreme

Introduction: American Extreme

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Jack Sargeant
September 2016
American Extreme
This dossier brings together a collection of articles on a number of filmmakers and filmmaking practices a little beyond Senses of Cinema’s typical focus. This serves as an introduction to and consideration of ...
Usama Alshaibi

The Pornographic Imagination Manifest: Notes On Usama Alshaibi’s The Amateurs (2003)

Jack Sargeant
September 2016
American Extreme
“I think there was something internally stimulating to go (to) that space, collectively there was a high, a mutual fantasy, we forgot we were making anything – it seemed like the performance was really for one ...

Notes From (Sydney) Underground: The 2nd Sydney Underground Film Festival

Jack Sargeant
April 2009
Festival Reports
11-14 September 2008 By way of an introduction. For those not fully engaged with the vagaries of the underground it should be observed that the underground is a contested space. Some would suggest undergr...
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Hot, Hard Cocks and Tight, Tight Unlubricated Assholes: Transgression, Sexual Ambiguity and “Perverse” Pleasures in Serge Gainsbourg’s Je t’aime moi non plus

Jack Sargeant
February 2004
Perversion
If certain body parts and functions are coded as normal and acceptable, Sargeant examines a film that turns these presuppositions on their head.
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American Nightmare: The Baying of Pigs: Reflections on the New American Horror Movie

Jack Sargeant
July 2001
Festival Reports
Sargeant is once again knee deep in the horror of humanity.
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No Text / No Truth / Jouissance and Revolution: An Interview with Craig Baldwin

Jack Sargeant
April 2001
Craig Baldwin
Taking place before his most recent film Spectres of the Spectrum (1999), Baldwin here discusses his background, Dada, neo-colonialism and his many films.
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A Brief Introduction to the Beat (in) Film

Jack Sargeant
September 2000
Feature Articles
The glorious Beat Cinema here intelligently and knowledgeably discussed.

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