Norbert Pfaffenbichler's 2551-Trilogy is something else entirely. Consisting of three films, all running for less than 90 minutes (The Kid is even only 65 minutes long), it is still so heady and heavy that the entirety of it is a lot to take in. Truly transgressive art is rare, but Pfaffenbichler joins the ranks of favorite transgressive filmmakers of mine like Nick Zedd, Bruce LaBruce, Jörg Buttgereit and Kenneth Anger. Pfaffenbichler operates on an entirely different level, though, building a surprisingly heavily populated dystopian world, in a cinematic style that also shares DNA with the works of Gakuryū Ishii, Guy Maddin, David Cronenberg, Mark Romanek and Terry Gilliam. It is as manic and maximalist as that sounds. 2551.01 The Kid, the first installment, is a...
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