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Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy’s live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man. (Bulldog Film Distribution)
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While watching Give Me Pity!, I often thought of giallo – not as a direct inspiration for the film, but as a parallel reference to grasp this highly atypical work. We can say about the boldest giallo films that their crime context and widescreen compositions with a distinctive colour palette invite a creative formalistic rampage beyond the boundaries of the ordinary and the limits of realism. In principle, Give Me Pity! uses the framework of the TV variety-show format and the 4:3 aspect ratio of old beta television cameras for the same purpose. In its adoption and subversion of the television format, as well as its remixing, disruption and purposeful deconstruction, Amanda Kramer’s film can evoke the live-action works of Adult Swim. However, it remains entirely distinctive and unique, because the intention here is not limited to stoner absurdity. Through the central monumental one-woman-show (with the help of three episodic characters and three dancers), it is actually about the murder of oneself, or rather one’s own distinctiveness on the road to fame in predefined pigeonholes. Through grotesque stylisation, the film expressively presents the process of role-playing for fame within the adopted bizarre boundaries of the target media, which is inherent not only in the film’s central character, but also in all of the people who, through their public alter egos, supposedly live out their own daily prime-time shows on social media.
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