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The Age of Insects


The Age of Insects is Eric Marciano's first feature film. Influenced by Timothy Leary, B-movies and odd television shows from the '50s and '60s, this psycho-horror comedy delivers a sublime and strange account of a mad doctor's hallucinogenic treatments for bad boys. Filmed in Super 8, 16mm, 35mm, Hi8, 3/4" and Betacam, all before it was fashionable; The Age of Insects has a timeless visual quality as well as a viscerally bizarre mise en scène.

"Coupled with the extensive use of creepy-crawly insect footage and computerized sexual imagery, director Marciano's darkly comic vision is sublime fun."

-- David E. Williams, Film Threat, April 1992

"This movie is the Citizen Kane of underground films--

intelligent, funny, engrossing."

-- Joe Bob Briggs, January 24, 1994

http://joebobbriggs.com/

The film was acquired for the permanent film collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 2017 and screened there on February 3rd, 2018 as part of the “Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983 show” which ran from October 31st 2017 to April 1st 2018.The screening which included Marciano's films "Narrowcast" and "Spin Cycles" drew a large and eclectic mix of new enthusiasts, old friends and cast & crew. 

Thanks to all.

The Age of Insects on IMDB

Credits
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Cast: Jack Ramey, Lisa Zane, Pierre Brulatour, K.C. Townshend, David Ilku, Heather Woodbury
Producer, Director, Original Story: Eric Marciano
Writers: Andy Rees, Eric Marciano, Peter C. Hall
Directors of Photography: Ignacio Valero, Ricardo Tuma
Editor & Special Effects: Eric Schefter
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