Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw

About Me

ABOUT THE CRY & THE CHAINSAW :
WEBSITE :: THE CRY & THE CHAINSAW
I / We - TCATC - make MUSIC VIDEO'S, SHORT FILMS, LIVE BAND FILMS / drunk spontaneous films at 6am to the the soundtrack of Italo Disco songs..., and anything else we can / want to commit to celluloid & speakers!!
To bring together people from the more trangressive aspects of music, art, performance and film. To make a bloody mess on film and in venues, places and situations that captures all that's twisted and ingenious about this disaster.
FILMOGRAPHY 2004 - 2006...
- HELL ON HALLOWEEN [Live Band Promo] TCATC001 Band: The Vincent Razorbacks
- JACK THE RIPPER [MUSIC VIDEO] TCATC002 Band: The Vincent Razorbacks
- JACK THE RIPPER [SHORT FILM] TCATC003 STARRING: Vince Ray | Trauma Unit | Lucifire | Devillia De Dallas | & many more..
- LAURA LONDON [Show Reel Film] TCATC004
- ZEBRA [Short Film] TCATC005
- TANGO SANGRE [Short Performance film]TCATC006 Live Show written & performed by Lucifire & Dave Tusk
- NITZER EBB - 'MUSCLE & HATE' [A Live Film] TCATC007 Live Show of thier secret gig
- HARLEQUIN [MUSIC VIDEO] TCATC 008 Band : Violet Rising
- HARLEQUIN [SHORT FILM] TCATC 009 [ TBC ]
- ANA [MUSIC VIDEO] TCATC010 Band : Nemhain
- BIG BLONDE [Short Film] TCATC011 [ TBC ]
- THE SPIES OF NEVSKO-GO TCATC012
- WOUND - An advert for new glossy alt fashion magazine, WOUND. www.woundmagazine.com / 'glitter & doom
UPDATED - Some stills below taken from our first few films...
Our continuing aim embodies the whole film making process, documenting, writing, producing and directing our own films from thier original idea to the last. Promoting events that events that capture the movements of alternative life and cultures past and present, right from the underground through to mainstream trangressions / tranmissions.
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HISTORY::
"If i should labour through daylight and dark, Consecrate, valorous, serious, true, then on the world may i blazon my mark, And what if i don't, and what if i do" [d.parker.circa 1940s]
The Cry & The Chainsaw was founded early 2004.
background images : Harlequin / TCATC
BELOW ARE 4 OF OUR FILMS : 'HARLEQUIN' | 'ZEBRA' | 'ANA' | 'JACK THE RIPPER'*
* the sound on 'Jack..' is isn't meant to seem like its underwater - that just the poor compression of myspac
HARLEQUIN

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ZEBRA

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NEMHAIN - ANA

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JACK THE RIPPER
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My Interests

RUSSIA - EASTERN EUROPE - GEORGIA - ESPIONAGE - HATS - MYSTERIES - NOIR - DRIFTING - LEARNING LANGUAGES - BEING ON THE ROAD - WORKING TO MAKE A DIFFERNCE - WEIMAR - FILM - REAL CONSTANTS IN LIFE - GRAVITY & GRACE - WOMEN - SOUND and VISUAL UNITY - THE SMALL DETAILS - SCENERY THAT DWARFS US - FILM MAKING - WATCHING FILMS WITH WINE & FRIENDS & NOTHING ELSE GOING ON - SCARIFICATION - DANCING WHEN YOU FORGET FEET - WAKING UP IN STRANGE SURROUNDINGS - JAEGERMIESTER IN BERLIN - WAKING WITH ANOTHER WHO FITS AS ONE - REMOTE SIGNAL POINTS AND ABANDONED BUILDINGS AS PLACES TO CRASH WHEN YOU'VE BEEN UP ALL NIGHT [WERDER HAVEL YOU ARE NO EXCEPTION]- MASQUERADING - MY PAST BEFORE MY TIME - WRITING INCESSANTLY / THIS BIG HUSH - TRAVELLING TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH /....

I'd like to meet:

artists of many types / TRANSGRESSIVES / THE RIGHT & THE WRONG / people who like to make a bloody mess on celuloid / PEOPLE WHO CREATE COLLECTIVELY / PEOPLE WHO PERVERT THE COURSE OF REALITY VIA THE FANTASTICAL AND ACTUALLY GIVING THEM A CHANCE TO HAPPEN .... naff bit over, other than that people i know or have met already. +

Music:

SHRIEKBACK - KINO - INGER LORRE - CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - NYMPHS - SLOWDIVE - OUMOU SANGARE - ANI LORAK - PARADISE LOST - KINGS OF NUTHIN' - CANNIBAL CORPSE - YOB - KYUSS - SOUTHERN ROCK / STONER - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN : THE BOSS for a reason! - ROSEMARY MALIGN & The Eugenics Council - WORLD CIRCUIT MUSIC - RUSSIAN FOLK - CHILDREN OF BODOM - NEIL YOUNG - TYPE O NEGATIVE - DOWN - FLEETWOOD MAC - STEVIE NICKS - MAYHEM - WINTERSUN - CHRISTINA - ITALO - TOM WAITS - SWANS - EDITH PIAF - SWING - BLUES - SHAKIRA - ROCKABILLY - DRUNKABILLY - COUNTRY - POWER BALLARDS - JOY DIVISION - MASSIVE ATTACK - SALIF KEITA - WHITEHOUSE - LYDIA LUNCH - 10,000 MANIACS - HAUS ARAFNA - MAZZY STAR - .... plus whatever drifts & screams in between!

Movies:

- GENIUS! /MAYA DEREN / DEKALOG / michealangelo ANTONIONI [dir.] / romeo castelluci / il deserto rosso / CINEMA OF TRANSGRESSION / MANHUNTER / JERRI CAIN ROSSI / Cassandra Stark / RICHARD LINKLATER / MYSTERIOUS SKIN & GREG ARAKI / David Lynch / DOUGLAS BUCK / l'avventura / KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI / Happiness / BEFORE SUNSET & BEFORE SUNRISE / wings of desire / AIMEE & JAGUAR / JOHN WATERS [dir.] / the kuchar brothers [dir.] / requiem for a dream / werkmiester harmonies / henry - portrait of a serial killer / der bleu engel / dario argento [dir.] / susperia / butterfly kiss / diva / BETTY BLUE / kansas city / david lynch [dir.] / MONICA VITTI [act.] / house of a thousand corpses / last house on the left / kate hudson / angel of vengeance / abel ferrara [dir.] / zombies / gore gore gore / russ meyer [dir.] / ava gardner [art.] / jean simmons [art.] / patricia arquette [act.] / desperatly seeking susan / repo man / the dance : fleetwood mac live / beaches / nekromantic 1 & 2 / the 'guinea pig' films / WONG KAR WAI / the 'civic tv' underground / ousmane sembene / john waters / lizbeth scott / weekend - jean luc Godard / les amants du pont neuf - leo carax / midnight cowboy / so many......

Television:

PRIME SUSPECT / twin peaks / MIAMI VICE / X-FILES / CRACKER / MESSIAH - Spooks - trash like Girls Next Door.

Books:

other rooms, other voices - in cold blood [truman CAPOTE] / BEN OKRI / emmanual LEVINAS / ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA / Milan Kundera / schopenhauer / LORDS OF CHAOS / 'A Lovers Discourse' - Roland Barthes [And the inspiration for a script i'm currently writing] / JOHN LE CARRE / GRAVITY & GRACE - liberty & oppression [SIMONE WEIL] / house of leaves / BEN OKRI / DOROTHY PARKER /blue of noon - story of the eye [georges BATAILLE] / HENRY MILLER / jean genet / phenomenology of perception [maurice MERLEAU-PONTY] / cinema of transgression [jack sargent] / totem of the depraved [nick zedd] / drive-by shootings - photos of new york / being & time [martin heidegger] / gustav flaubert / norman MAILER / JG BALLARD / mikhail bulgakov / ...

Heroes:

Dorothy Parker..

Anna Politkovskaya | Simone Weil

Lukas Moodysson

My Blog

+CARNI-VILE @ Proud Galleries+

+Come to this - do it- should be a blast! 21st MARCH 21stA "...night curated by a collective of London's creatives to bring you an evening that celebrates the decay and regeneration of aesthetics thro...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:22:00 PST

HARLEQUIN SCREENING

+As the edit draws to a close the time has come for us to show the music video [short film] that we shot back in June & Aug 2006 at a place of magic, oddities, wonder, ship wrecks and junk along the K...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:33:00 PST

'ANA' - Nemhain Video Online / TCATC 07 News

+Check it out if you've a spare 4 mins!TCATC Link - ANA - NemhainNEMHAIN Link - ANABig cheers to all involved, the band of course - y'all rock!!, the grrls for being Ana & Ana, the great Sean for doin...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:46:00 PST

'ANA' STILLS / When the Zest of life is moving like loons on an Ipswich dancefloor..

+In between birthday parties, stumblings, mishaps - a whole lotta fun it was too - emersed in enough booze to sink a town [ipswich], we managed to make 2 films in 2 days.....Here are some stills ive t...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:01:00 PST

TCATC Films ONLINE

+Crank up the sound. Peer very closely!If anyone is interested.. we have finally got some of our films so far that have been edited/completed up online to view......MAIN PAGE : SHOWREEL+JACK THE RIPPE...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:30:00 PST

TCATC & NEMHAIN MUSIC VIDEO : EXTRAS WANTED!

+We are making a promo music video with NEMHAIN for their track 'ANA'WE WANT YOU TO COME PARTY, SHOW US YOUR MOVES, RAISE SOME HELL & BE THE CROWD!!!+Times confirmed as...NEMHAIN MUSIC VIDEO for 'ANA'...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:29:00 PST

an incident that remained with you; the days residue

+TALES of STRANGER ENCOUNTERS WANTED....sift through your minds, cast an eye or two back, delve into waters uninhabited for a while and see if you can recall any weird, off-beat, curious encounters wi...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 05:57:00 PST

Harlequin - Filming Day 001 / South Coast

Sun burnt, ruin caught, quite released, shots fired, details captured, atmosphere reacted : Part 1/2 of the filming for the Music Video / Short has been shot this weekend [on a location of some refera...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:23:00 PST

The Cry & The Chainsaw Website V.03

+Much overdue, our website has been overhaulled, updated & re-vamped by us..The Cry & The Chainsaw First update of 2006!!After an unfortunate beginning to May with a road accident for tcatc's, sam [w...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Tue, 16 May 2006 03:58:00 PST

'HARLEQUIN' : A MUSIC VIDEO No.02 / The Balkans

'Harlequin' - Violet Rising / Music Video 02 : TCATC003And so having decided a while back that a music video project could wait a while, we've not only found ourselves with an exciting project on the ...
Posted by Amy / The Cry & The Chainsaw on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:07:00 PST