Divergent View: The Films of Bertrand Mandico Blu-ray Boxset

'Divergent View: The Feature Films of Bertrand Mandico' (2017-2023) Anti-Worlds Limited Edition 3-Disc Blu-ray Boxset | French w/ English subtitles

Three films that re-imagine cult, underground, transgressive, psychedelic and experimental cinema through dazzling adventures into visual worlds and gender-defying travels in time and space. 

The Wild Boys (2017)
In the early 20th century on French overseas colony of Réunion, five affluent teenage boys (portrayed by female actors) commit a violent and depraved crime involving the sexual assault of their teacher. As punishment, they are taken for rehabilitation onto a ship captain's dilapidated boat, where they will sail for a tropical island and undergo a profound physical and psychological transformation.

After Blue (Dirty Paradise) (2021)
On the women-only alien planet After Blue, a lonely, bullied teenager unearths a notorious assassin (named Kate Bush) who was buried in the sand, inadvertently unleashing a wave of violence across their community.

She is Conann (2023)
In this dark reimagining of Conan the Barbarian, a dog-headed underworld guardian tracks a woman across all six incarnations of her life with an Instamatic camera, from her time as a teenage slave captive to a barbarian horde, through the ranks of a savage Amazonian tribe, jumping through time to find work as a stuntwoman in the Bronx in the 90s — each played by a different actor, spanning 40 years of her life.

Limited Edition contents:

• 80-page book with exclusively commissioned new writing and interviews from Willow MacClay on the Wild Boys, David Spittle on After Blue, Neil Fox on Conann, and more

Special features include:

• At the Edge of the Volcano / À côté du volcan (12mins)  - A short film by Elina Löwensohn

• Archipelago of Oblivion / L’Archipel des Oublies (18mins)  - shimmers and spectres from the world of The Wild Boys by Bertrand Mandico

• Interviews with Bertrand Mandico and Elina Löwensohn

• Video essay on After Blue by Maximilian Le Cain and by Chris O’Neill

• I killed Kate Bush  / J’ai tue Kate Bush (13mins)- shimmers and spectres from the world of After Blue by Bertrand Mandico

• The Show Has Already Started / L’Emmission A Deja Commence (82 mins): A faux TV show that wraps around Mandico's Barbarian short films.

• Short films: Rainer: A Vicious Dog in Skull Valley (26mins); We the Barbarians (26mins); The Last Cartoon (9mins); The Deviant Comedy + subs (65mins) 
• The fictional rehearsals for the invisible show: CONANN THE BARBARIAN