Ape Sodom
2017 · 14m
Directed by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A demented Roman emperor reincarnated in the present searches for his eunuchs, his pleasures, and his particular proclivities — structured as a low-budget fever-dream of debasement.
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Reincarnated Roman emperor. Eunuch-hunting. Built from carpet remnants. This is cinema's most Boschian budget crisis and I am HERE for it.
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos playing 'Slave' to a reincarnated Roman emperor, assembled from ethernet cable and carpet remnants — the materials are the aesthetic and the questions (where would he find his eunuchs?) are the right kind of unhinged. A genuine outlier.
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos as a Roman emperor reincarnated and looking for his eunuchs, assembled from ethernet cable and carpet remnants — the lo-fi commitment to debasement is the whole craft argument here.
Reviews
Summoning up a Boschian Saturnalia from ethernet cable and carpet remnants, Ape Sodom teaches us that there's still room in today's ultramodern world for the debased flunkies and abject lickspittles of yesteryear