Mayhem

“Mayhem” gives homage to Film Noir, soap opera thrillers and Mexican comic books, which generate the action. Perversely and equally inspired by de Sade’s “Justine” and Vertov’s sentences about the satiric detective advertisement, “Mayhem” looks at sexuality and violence in the movies. “Mayhem” links the screen, the bedroom, and the streets to generate a mosaic of the way modern culture sends mixed signals about sexuality to men and women. “‘Mayhem’ is more than a detective story; it’s a hypermodern melding of forms, an erotic send-up of slapstick with a heady dose of cultural nay-saying.” – Elizabeth Pincus, Gay Community News “The shots are fast and flickering, the soundtrack equally fragmented, yet for such a diverse blend of ideas the significance of each image is striking. Voyeurism, eroticism, violence and pornography are challengingly jumbled together; the result is a mixture of fluttery pictures which cloud what is real and what is not, making the questions that these films provoke all the more disturbing.” – Jane Headon, City Limits, London “‘Mayhem’ reminds us that our bodies belong as much to the history of cinema as they do to our lovers.” – Tom Kalin, The Independent