THE BLINDING LIGHT CINEMA - Vancouver

Alex McKenzie

FRIDAY JUNE 2 8:30pm

WESTERN CANADIAN PREMIERE:

STEVE SANGUEDOLCE’S SMACK

Toronto filmmaker Steve Sanguedolce creates provocative, smart and ingenious works on film which brilliantly blend the personal and the universal. With family and self-examination as central themes, Sanguedolce mesmerizes the viewer visually but never to the detriment of the overriding thematic of a given film. We are pleased to present the Western Canadian Premiere of his latest film SMACK, an astounding example of the pulsing textural and vivid colour spectrum potential of hand-processing in combination with an intense and jarring tale. Part documentary, part fiction and visually experimental, Sanguedolce’s SMACK traces the lives of three brothers as they build their lives around

drugs, crime and violence, all of which slowly tears them apart. Ranging from tales of religious transformation to heroin overdosing, these stories are told by the subjects themselves - at once funny, horrifying and all too real. Combined with a surreal and jarring vision of the world through hand toned and processed images, their world is both beautiful and terrifying. “The intensity of family relationships, the lure of danger, and the hope for redemption are powerfully present in SMACK, a fascinating, disturbing film, and Sanguedolce’s most ambitious work to date”. (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center).