Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Legendary Filmmaker
Posted by Jack Silverman on Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:33 AM
But if anyone's qualified to dig deep into the muddy waters that lurk below the Mason-Dixon Line, it's Legendary Shack*Shakers frontman Colonel J.D. Wilkes. Raised in Western Kentucky, Wilkes has made the weird, wonderful and haunting Southern underbelly—particularly the saint-sinner smackdown that gives the Bible Belt its name—the focus of his music, sideshow art, cartoons and now, film.
On his website, Wilkes says, "This movie seeks to give resonance to the voices of true, Southern individuals...each one unique, fearless and most importantly intelligent. This is NOT an exploitational slam-job on the South. This is about the humanity of my homeland. These are my people."
Though Seven Signs is still in production, the trailer has us salivating. See for yourself.
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There's an interesting comp/cont of Seven Signs and Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus found in a conversation between Wilkes and Steve Haisman (writer/director of Searching ) on the film's MySpace blog (www.myspace.com/jds7signs)
That's exactly the movie I thought of when I saw the trailer, and Wilkes nailed almost every criticism I have of it. From just the trailer, I'd say Wilkes' film looks superior in every way. It doesn't look like he's treating people as collectible outsider art.
Yes, the promotion of Wilkes's film sounds like it will be the better of the two, possibly b/c of his having seen what is appreciable in SFTWEJ.
And, I'm curious: would you say that Borat also treats people like "collectible outsider art"?
