Subconscious Cruelty
| Subconscious Cruelty | |
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DVD cover
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| Directed by | Karim Hussain |
| Produced by | Mitch Davis |
| Written by | Karim Hussain |
| Starring |
Brea Asher Ivaylo Founev Eric Pettigrew Christopher Piggins |
| Music by | Teruhiko Suzuki |
| Cinematography | François Bourdon |
| Edited by | Karim Hussain |
| Distributed by | Albatros Film (Japan) New Select (Japan) Cinema Novo (Portugal) Infliction Films (Canada) |
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Release date
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October 12, 2000 |
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Running time
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92 min. |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100,000 CAD |
Subconscious Cruelty is an independent film written and directed by Karim Hussain and produced by Mitch Davis. It was filmed over a long period of time, from February 1994 to December 1999, and debuted at the Festival de Cine de Sitges in Sitges, Spain, on October 12, 2000. The film went on to screen at several other festivals, including the and Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival before being released on DVD on April 18, 2005.
The movie is based on several nihilistic and metaphorical stories about life, death and everything between.
Hussain began filming Subconscious Cruelty at the age of 19 after connecting with 22-year-old Davis, a producer whom Hussain knew to believe in the project. Hussain felt that the subculture of the mid-1990s, a time when heroin usage was prevalent and nihilism was gaining acceptance in the art world, would be accepting of his film. Influences for the film include works by Alexandro Jodorowsky, Luis Buñuel, Dušan Makavejev, David Lynch, David Cronenberg and others.
The filmmaking process was beset by various problems, including the disappearance of the film negative in a financial dispute, forcing Hussain to hand-cut the positive of the film without knowing if he would ever re-gain the negative. Another setback occurred when Hussain was stopped at the Canada–United States border after a business trip to the United States. Canadian customs officials inspected the film, and, appalled by its content, confiscated it as illegally obscene material. As a result, the original stock had to be hidden for a long period of time.
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