23rd OCTOBER 2010 @  The Cullity Gallery  Clifton St. Nedlands                                 (session time TBA)

24th OCTOBER 2010 @  The Cullity Gallery  Clifton St. Nedlands                                 (session time TBA)

 

Further screening sessions to be announced.

 

For all enquires contact  info@thepotatohousemovie.com

A young woman and her partner take residence in a small rural town, where human organs are sown and harvested and the local pickle factory imposes it’s monolithic structure over the landscape. With the young man’s new career and chance at the big time finally within reach, their old stone cottage appears to be a happy sanctuary for the loving couple and their friendly goat to start living the life of their dreams. However, an encounter with the young woman’s strange new neighbour soon brings her entire reality crashing down around her...  

 

When the witch invites the young woman over for supper, one bite of the cancerous, maggot-ridden potato feast is all it takes to suck her into a hallucinatory nightmare from which there is no escape. Her mind and body slowly become invaded by demons intent on her demise and the line between reality and fantasy begins to evaporate. Desperate to convince herself and her partner of her sanity, the young woman  must confront the monsters that haunt her before it’s too late. 

 

‘The Potato House’ merges  the avant-garde with narrative horror cinema to create a surrealistic landscape that transforms the viewers reactions to everyday objects and encourages them to question how these responses are conditioned. Potatoes become objects of terror, dead hair becomes charged with eroticism and the viewer’s preconceived notions of their surroundings are shattered. 

 

It will change the way you look at potatoes forever...

caris lisa mccabe

Caris Lisa is an experimental filmmaker and artist whose work can be viewed as more of  a series of psychological experiments geared at challenging the viewer’s automatic responses generated by their encounters with the taboo. Conceptually her work recontextualises things/ideas that people are conditioned to respond to in certain ways in order to alter their preconceived notions surrounding them. The explicit becomes monotonous, the mundane becomes erotic, the abject becomes attractive, the potato becomes Freddy Kruger.  The human body and certain objects are abstracted through film to elicit the desired reaction from the viewer. 

 

Caris Lisa primarily works in the film medium and has produced many avant-garde films for installation purposes. Her work includes ‘Nocturne Op.9 No.2 for Tape Recorder Orchestra’ (2010), ‘The Devolution of Man’ (2009) series, ’Facial Striptease’ (2008),  ’Eden on a Pole’ (2008), ’The Nocturne of Celia Rand’ (2008), ’Burlesque Pap Smear’ (2008), ’This Happened on the 5.25 to the North’ (2007) , ‘Pet’ (2007) and ’Pornhouse Cinema’ (2007).  ‘The Potato House’ (2010) is her first feature length production. 

 

Caris Lisa has studied English and Psychology at Murdoch University and is currently completing her Honours in Fine Art at the University of Western Australia. She has one lovely child, Bowie and another half formed, but nonetheless just as lovely child. She enjoys horror films, sewing, fat cats with fluffy pants named Ziggy Stardust, vintage clothing, goat taming and transposing her own irrational phobias onto other people. She doesn’t like pepper.