Review of the film Six Demons by Emily Rose. Brief description, genre, plot. Analysis of script, direction, acting, cinematography, music and visual effects, costumes, makeup. Conclusion

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Review of the film Six Demons by Emily Rose. Brief description, genre, plot. Analysis of script, direction, acting, cinematography, music and visual effects, costumes, makeup. Conclusion: this is a great, gorgeous film that just needs more time in the spotlight. And so begins another analysis of the film that will be completed in the series of reviews that follows.The first review, by John Clem, is entitled Six Demons by Emily Rose, Artforum, May 1974.The film in question is called In Search of a Case: Six Demons by Emily Rose, And How It Was (1968), a narrative based on the story of the Aryan invasion of the land of Shroesbeck. It is about the survival of the people. In what is called the Saurians version, the population is being driven from their homes by the invading army of Shroesbeck, who have taken up arms and are waging an invasion of the land. Once the invaders retreat to their towns, the inhabitants are taken into custody, and when the citizens of Shroesbeck gather to protest, they confront the army and demand the return of the inhabitants. The film provides a great explanation of how this democratic movement works. In the Saurians version, the citizens of Shroesbeck stand in defiance of the invading army, with their hands in their pockets, their hands held out in surrender. The army refuses to surrender, and the citizens of Shroesbeck give up.The film goes on to detail the various actions and motivations that lead the people of Shroesbeck to rally behind their leader, the brilliant, well-built, arrogant, elderly, and out-of-favor Saurian. The main character, Orin, is an aristocrat who, as the film states, is the son of the governor of Shroesbeck, a town in Brwæskie, the country of Poland. Orin is used as a prop by the army in the film. He is portrayed by a red-and-yellow actor who looks like the typical moustached Irishman.

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Review of the film Six Demons by Emily Rose. Brief description, genre, plot. Analysis of script, direction, acting, cinematography, music and visual effects, costumes, makeup. Conclusion of six horrifying scenes. Yet further analysis of script, direction, acting, cinematography, music and visual effects. Not usually shown in film-theater reviews, this film, titled Six Demons, is filled with horror in the purest, most poetic and most critical sense, as evinced by its capacity to shatter and for which it has been called an architectural catastrophe. The six images of the film—the camera, the actors, the camera obscura, the filmic element, the screen—are strewn throughout the film like a pile of rubble. In one scene the camera is pointed toward a position and an empty room where two demons are toying with the camera. Another demon, now staring at the camera, stands with his back to us in the room, his back turned to the viewer, his back turned to us as a murderer, and his face a bloody mess. The last image in the film, a sequence of six close-ups of the same demon, is a close-up of a demon who has been expelled from the film and has risen from the rubble and threatens to stab the camera. As he approaches it, he stabs the camera several times with his blade and after a while is dragged back into the film, as if to remind us of the horror in the scene. The camera is used to separate the two halves of the film—the demon (the camera) and the screen (the demon)—but in Six Demons the screen is painted black and the demon (the screen) is painted black. The screen is tied to the camera with a rod and attached to the back of the demon, but the rod is bent at an angle. The demon rises from the screen and emerges from the black rod, strikes the screen, and flings the screen toward the camera.The power of Six Demons—in all its seriousness, all its boldness, and all its complexity—lay in its vastness.

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: Six Demons is a fantasy. Perfectly executed, with a sense of wonder and violence: perfect theater. To ignore what Rose has accomplished is folly. This is a nightmare with a cold, dark future.

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Review of the film Six Demons by Emily Rose. Brief description, genre, plot. Analysis of script, direction, acting, cinematography, music and visual effects, costumes, makeup. Conclusion: Eight demons. Thats how the film ends.Rose has described his work as a process of revelations that are entertaining and delightful. He talks about how these demons can be anything at all, but at the same time, he says, they are the same thing as real people. In the film Six Demons, two demons—those of the Atlantic, the land of ignorance, and the distant North—travel through a vast expanse of the American wilderness, encountering a local Native American tribe, a tribe from the Far East, and a charismatic religious leader who teaches them to speak and perform shamanic acts. One of the demons is an aboriginal woman who has been transformed into a living statue by her actions, and from that point on, she possesses the power of a demon. These are not real people, not real demons, but, in the most extreme and perverted way, real demons—and this is an aspect that, in the film, is explored with great detail. The story moves between a number of disorienting moments. One of the most extraordinary and disturbing moments occurs at the beginning, when the two figures are standing among the trees of the Amazon forest. One of the figures appears to be carrying a child, while the other stands aloof, his face hidden by a hair, his eyes closed, his mouth shut. The woman, who has the power of a shaman, sits upon a big tree, with her hands and feet bound, and carries a child in her arms. Her black cloak appears to veil her face, but she still holds a large bowl in her hands. The demon in the video, though still wearing a black cloak, removes his mask, which is pulled up to his neck, and then wraps it around his neck. Two sets of eyes peep through the mask and the mask becomes more transparent, as if the spirit is trying to peer inside.

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Review of the film Six Demons by Emily Rose. Brief description, genre, plot. Analysis of script, direction, acting, cinematography, music and visual effects, costumes, makeup. Conclusion: no enthusiasm, a mission to speak, a challenge to transform its audience, nothing but a baffling mess of film. These are the subjects of a film about an enormous, white-coated installation. We see several people standing around in a dark space, screaming, screeching, throwing themselves at each other and flinging themselves off the walls. A disembodied male voice intones: Stop! Stop! These people . . . We are in danger . . . We need to save the people . . . Many of them are dead . . . Over and over. A second woman and two men are also seen running, stopping to wipe the blood from their eyes. There is a flash of violence in this scene, and this is one of the most disturbing sequences in the film, although the film does contain moments of humor and fun. The whole thing is shot in black and white, with no sound; the noise is unnaturally quiet.The crowd is then abruptly silenced by the voice of a narrator who sounds like a silly kid, but who says, Forget the good, innocent people around you. It is a trap, a trap. The voices voice comes from a ghostly black-and-white sound track: the occasional din of a car, the sigh of wind, the echo of a hard metal door in a hallway. In another sequence, a different voice cries: Shut the fuck up! Think hard . . . You know who you are. You know who you are! Fuck off! A set of three people dressed in elaborate costumes run into the middle of a darkened corridor, jumping and throwing themselves at each other. The sound track is another black-and-white sound track: flapping wings, moaning, whirling, snarling, screaming, playing the drums.The film also contains a sequence of interviews with different members of the same family. The girls ask each other about their relatives, their fathers, and husbands, about their parents and grandparents.