Just a Few Words

By Ron Merk

We recently published an interview with Jon, a follow up to one I did with him more than ten years ago. I’m constantly amazed how far he can take things on film. To say that his subject matter is “daring, revolutionary, experimental, completely mad and way out there” would be a serious understatement.

His first film in ten years has been completed, and it appears from the information and the trailer that he just sent me that it goes “way beyond” his earlier works. I suppose the old adage, “you have to see it to believe it” is really the only way to characterize Jon’s work. So, I will not try to explain with mere words. Its title is “Pig Death Machine.” How can one comment on such a title?

Instead, I’m attaching the recent e-mail I had from Jon. As they say in Latin: res ipse loquitur. (the thing speaks for itself).

Communication from Jon, written in his own inimitable style:

OK, lotsa good movie news!!!

The movie is premiering… yes, the MOVIE is PREMIERING in NY, SF, and on the INTERNET thee first week of June!!!!

Here are the details:

SPECTACLE THEATER, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 1-6 June w/ the MORITSUGU retrospective: “POST MODERNISM – WHO CARES?”
spectacle: http://www.spectacletheater.com/
retrospective trailer: http://vimeo.com/66528193
PIG DEATH MACHINE trailer: https://vimeo.com/66877377

ROXIE THEATER, San Francisco, 1-5 June w/ retrospective
http://roxie.com/events/details.cfm?eventID=EE9399C0-0BE6-EB2A-8C96B3FB2E0673F1

FANDOR, starting 1 June, internet/digital USA premiere!!!!!!
http://www.fandor.com/

So here’s the cool thing about Fandor… they have a 14 day FREE promotion!!!! So you can sign up (real EZ) and check out PIG DEATH and all my movies and lotsa other stuff til yr eyeballs are bleeding… and if you’re not into it, you can bail out no problemo.
Tell everyone you know about this deal. YEAH!

Let’s spread the newz and… CHEERS!!!

Jon