Category Archives: Film

KOLKHOZ 011: THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS BEAT THE BEST

Posted on May 16, 2012 by | Leave a comment


A solitary pair of Vans opens onto the overly dramatized and underwhelmed life of Alex (Ryan O’Nan), and it would seem the film itself. After a girl’s locker room style scene of heartbreak sobbing and some morally questionable comedy at the expense of a special needs class, the no-hoper in Alex is revealed. Continue reading →

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KOLKHOZ 010: TOMBOY

Posted on May 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment


The familiar burden of moving house and settling in is a ritual painfully experienced at the best of times. Celine Sciamma’s TOMBOY enacts this right of passage with the added hardship that new boy Michael, is actually a girl. Famed for her cult classic Water Lilies, Sciamma beautifully depicts another idyllic French journey into sexual confusion. Continue reading →

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KOLKHOZ 008: TRASH HUMPERS

Posted on March 28, 2012 by | Leave a comment


A self-explanatory title. Harmony Korines TRASH HUMPERS brings new meaning to fucking weird. Opening with the age-enhanced socially deranged and their sexually exploitive partners (any inanimate object), we enter the arena of the “free”. Continue reading →

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KOLKHOZ 007: ELEPHANT

Posted on March 13, 2012 by | Leave a comment


Insignificance and ostracization are commonplace in high school; their consequences however can be a much more sinister game of play. No more so bluntly created, or recreated, than in Gus Van Sant’s 2003 ELEPHANT, where the hardship of what seems every imaginable teenage depravity is brought to a tragic conclusion. Continue reading →

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KOLKHOZ 006: THE FUTURE

Posted on February 29, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Forget hope, if the sincere are as corruptible as the rest of us, then we must accept our austere living as fate. Miranda July’s 2011 release once again crafts a delicate embodiment of tedium and desire reminiscent of her troublingly beautiful Me and You and Everyone We Know. Continue reading →

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KOLKHOZ 005: FINISTERRAE

Posted on February 22, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Two ghosts, a wheelchair and a mechanical horse. Probably the weirdest form of self-discovery, but ineffably cute. Continue reading →

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KOLKHOZ 004: TAKE SHELTER

Posted on February 15, 2012 by | Leave a comment


New weekly independent film blog Kolkhoz  premieres exclusively on SEXBEAT every Wednesday.

And so paranoia breaks the common man. TAKE SHELTER sees the disruption of a man in wake of the wellbeing of his family, a proverbial story in a twisted narrative. Continue reading →

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KOLKHOZ 003: DRAGONSLAYER

Posted on February 8, 2012 by | Leave a comment


New weekly independent film blog Kolkhoz  premieres exclusively on SEXBEAT every Wednesday. Kolkhoz 003, Tristan Patterson’s DRAGONSLAYER, will indulge you in a reminiscent picture of your teens, with the bittersweet undertone that you grew up. This skate park bum documentary leaves you in a disorientated state of emotions, questioning why you care so much for the tie-dye sprawled vagabond that is Josh “Skreech” Sandoval.

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KOLKHOZ 002: DONNE-MOI LA MAIN

Posted on February 1, 2012 by | Leave a comment


New weekly independent film blog Kolkhoz premiers exclusively on SEXBEAT each Wednesday. Kolkhoz 002: DONNE-MOI LA MAIN is a haunting rendition of the monotony of similarity. Director Pascal-Alex Vincent explores the complexities of being a twin with a precedent lack of understanding from outsiders as well as of one’s self.

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KOLKHOZ 001: SNOWTOWN

Posted on January 25, 2012 by | Leave a comment


Kolkhoz is a new weekly independent film blog premiering exclusively on SEXBEAT every Wednesday. The name derives from the Russian communist theorem ‘collective knowledge for individual thought’. Stay tuned.

Fucking brutal. SNOWTOWN intimately illustrates a much darker side to Australian living, with an all too familiar route to evil. Justin Kurzel’s compassionate depiction of sexual abuse, mental turmoil and inevitably serial murder, offers a heartbreaking rendition of events that devastated the south of Australia across the 90’s.

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