Skinflicker
N/A
44 minutes
- Hilary Charlton, Will Knightley, Henry Woolf
- Tony Bicât
- Drama, Short
- January 1, 1970
- English
- 6.6
Synopsis
Presented as found footage à la The Blair Witch Project, this chilling and provocative fake home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Will Knightley (father of Keira) plays one of the guerrillas who kidnap and torture a cabinet minister. Tony Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness. Pre-punk in its semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values, this is strong stuff.
