Voulez Vous Coucher Avec God?
VOULEZ VOUS COUCHES AVEC GOD? to debut TIFF Lightbox on Canada Day.
27/06/11 10:14
Michael HIrsh and Jack Christie's lost 1960s underground movie VOULEZ VOUS COUCHES AVEC GOD? to debut TIFF Lightbox on Canada Day.
Michael Hirsh co-founder of the animation studio Nelvana began his career at Toronto's notorious Rochdale College where along with fellow filmmaker Jack Christie, they direct a drug infused experimental film starring counter cultural icon
(and FUGS member) Tuli Kupferberg .
After a few showings at the Roxy Cinema in Toronto, the film disappeared like smoke rings on a windy day... until last year when it was unearthed at the National Archives of Canada by filmmaker / preservationist Ron Mann ( Grass, Comic Book Confidential) who arranged for its restoration on HD at Deluxe Labs.
J. Hoberman, critic for New York's Village Voice wrote the lost 1960s film could have shared status with such cult classics as El Topo had the film actually been distributed.
Now circulating at international film festivals such as Rotterdam and Buenos Aires, VOULEZ VOUS COUCHES AVEC GOD? has its Canadian Premiere on Canada Day at the TIFF BELL Lightbox where it will be introduced by co-director Michael Hirsh.
For more information!
For interviews with Michael HIrsh, please contact Michael Boyuk
(and FUGS member) Tuli Kupferberg .
After a few showings at the Roxy Cinema in Toronto, the film disappeared like smoke rings on a windy day... until last year when it was unearthed at the National Archives of Canada by filmmaker / preservationist Ron Mann ( Grass, Comic Book Confidential) who arranged for its restoration on HD at Deluxe Labs.
J. Hoberman, critic for New York's Village Voice wrote the lost 1960s film could have shared status with such cult classics as El Topo had the film actually been distributed.
Now circulating at international film festivals such as Rotterdam and Buenos Aires, VOULEZ VOUS COUCHES AVEC GOD? has its Canadian Premiere on Canada Day at the TIFF BELL Lightbox where it will be introduced by co-director Michael Hirsh.
For more information!
For interviews with Michael HIrsh, please contact Michael Boyuk
filmswelike Acquires VOULEZ VOUS COUCHER AVEC GOD?
01/11/10 12:31
a film by Jack Christie, Michael Hirsh
1972 / 69 min/ New high-definition transfer from original 16mm elements
Canadian-made experimental flick featuring a groundbreaking potpourri of live action and animation, backed by a rollicking soundtrack of 1960s hits. As portrayed by Kupferberg, there’s no messing with this Yahweh who’d just as soon enjoy a blow job from an inflatable schmoo as mastermind a presidential election from the cozy confines of his bathtub in Hashish Seventh Heaven, where a cast of pipe-dreaming souls journeys to be reborn. All hell breaks loose when the angel of the Lord attempts to cover up his failure to avert the sacrifice of young Isaac by his father, Abraham.
Watch the trailer!
Screening at Anthology Film Archives Nov 14th!