Gästebuc


Intro
JAPANESE SCUBA DIVER: "Below in the lake there is a pipe that runs via Sloane Square, under Russia, all the way to Japan." Inspektor mit dem Astrochild
PROPHET: "Free yourself from this tiny-minded ten-finger fascism, from the despotism of decimality. Translate your mind into binary. The zero is the whole the woman's hole, the one is the phallic creative principle." Tomas Katz als Nelson
MINISTER: "Alcopops are going to form the backbone of our war effort. We will not go into war sad, we will not go into war sober, but we will go into war with a smile on our faces, bloated and exalted with alcopops!" Mr. Browne

A man comes out of the sewer by London's orbital motorway, the M25. He stays in London for a day. When he leaves, the whole universe has disappeared.

One by one, Tomas Katz possesses the body and soul of a series of 9 Londoners. As them, he wreaks havoc. As the Taxi Driver, he summons all taxis and cabs in London to one kosher meat-packaging plant in North London, causing devastation on the roads. As the Minister of Fish, he declares war on the middlefardistant-eastern country of Gwupigrubinudny-land. As the tube controller, he changes the underground network into a system that collects the dead from their graves to take them to the valley of the Last Judgement (near Amersham).

Only one man can stop him, the blind, spiritualist Chief of Metropolitan Police. This is a policeman who doesn't use normal investigative methods. He gathers his information on the Astral Plane, and makes enquiries into the spirit world with a Ouija Board. But can this one man prevent the Apocalypse? Can one man prevent the will of God? And who's God anyway?

THE NINE LIVES OF TOMAS KATZ is the film that has been described as the "most unusual film of the year" in Portugal, as "deeply eccentric" in England, and as a "well-spring of innovation heading for enduring cult status" by Screen International. Watching THE NINE LIVES OF TOMAS KATZ is not a familiar experience. It can be guaranteed that you have never seen another film like it.

Shot in 3 weeks, much of it improvised in front of the camera, edited in a back room off the Holloway road, and scored with techno mayhem, Georgian choirs and a counter-tenor singing German Romantic poetry, this is a unique film, mixing the styles of the German Expressionist nightmare movie with the MTV promo.

*** The film stars the irredeemably strange Thomas Fisher and Ian McNeice and is directed by the cult eccentric Ben Hopkins, whose first film, SIMON MAGUS, was described as "an off-kilter comedy about living in mud" by the British Press.

THE NINE LIVES OF TOMAS KATZ is a film found beneath a stone; the cinematic equivalent of a woodlouse. It is destined to creep furtively around the world like a strange insect. If you follow the weird, pale man who is packing plastic bags into the back of his Trabant or Skoda, and follow him through the woods and into the mountains, and then deep into the mines, this is where you will find a hidden cinema where Tomas Katz is screened to the Damned.

Seek and ye shall find it.
Imperator Schlauch INSPECTOR: "Little do they know that London is a city built on a mystic network. London is full of forces we know nothing about."
Yvonne verkündet MINISTER: "I mean 4th Para are going to suffer. Because they were personally responsible for sodomising my Aunt Julia and I've not forgiven them for that, the bastards."
Keith RABBI: "As ever it's the question of choices: -do you simmer the dumplings in hot water, and then transfer them to the chicken broth, or do you simmer them in the chicken broth in the first place?"