Séamus Malekafzali Patron

Favorite films

  • La Roue
  • There's Always Tomorrow
  • Under the Bridges
  • Gloria!

All
  • Avengement

    ★★★★½

  • Fuses

    ★★★★

  • Adults in the Room

    ★★★

  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

    ★★½

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Cruel Images

2024

1

This is my sophomore short film.

I wanted to detail a piece of now-forgotten German cinema, Uncle Krüger, a sweeping epic about the Boer War that depicts in its finale a British concentration camp, shot while an actual Nazi concentration camp operated only 30-some kilometers from the set.

I tried to examine the depths of its cynicism and how that cynicism has echoed after the fall of the Third Reich, as present-day fascist regimes too see not only victimhood in the crimes of the past, but also an example of what to inflict on others.

The film can be found here: vimeo.com/1033352755

Shiloh

2022

Watched

I can't rate this objectively, as I directed it. This is my first short film.

I was inspired by Marxist filmmaker Masao Adachi's landscape theory and its examination of how landscapes express the dominant political power, and I sought to apply it to the power of romantic memory, melancholy, and nostalgia. I wanted to craft a piece of slow cinema about a universal experience and I hope I succeeded.

The film can be found here: vimeo.com/684727715

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Avengement

2019

★★★★½ Liked Rewatched

great movie for saying "olright, what's all this then" in a british voice while you watch it

Fuses

1967

★★★★ Liked 1

I would watch more pornography if it was like this

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The Substance

2024

★½ 20

Have never had my high expectations dashed like this before with a movie. Literally from the first minute I felt an immediate sense of dread as I realized what this was and that the marketing had portrayed a much more patient, competently directed film than actually existed.

There are downright show-stopping, highly committed performances here from Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid, but it is in service of a half-baked vision, offering surface-level feminist critiques, and ultimately containing the…

Enter the Void

2009

★½ 3

more like enter my ass