Numbskull Revolution (2026) is Moritsugu’s first new movie in a decade, a collaboration with his ex-wife, Amy Davis, and marks the comeback of this Grammy-nominated Oscar Contender who is arguably one of the world’s most uncompromising and extreme cinematic outliers. Completed over nine years and filmed mainly in Santa Fe, this grand finale is Davis and Moritsugu’s most epic and fully-realized motion picture. Ostensibly a riff on the absurdity of art, warfare of people, material control/secular terror, addictions of every genre, and self-actualization thru internal Jungian conflict, the movie – at its most base level – is a full-on and mega-entertaining cinematic odyssey tinged with ludicrous sci-fi, raw poignancy, and utter brutalism.
Amy Davis and James Duval (“Frank the Bunny” from Donnie Darko) play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension.
Mod Fuck Explosion (1994), a lurid fever dream riffing on arthouse pretense, collides head-on with shock cinema. Amy Davis stars as London, a slinky blond girl in love/lust with delinquent boy par excellence M16 (played by female lead Desi del Valle), searching for her raison d’etre in a sprawling nightmare city. A coming-of-age story packaged in a sleazy exploitation wrapper, MOD FUCK EXPLOSION resonates with a strange yet wholly original existentialism.
After the movies, Jon Moritsugu will join us via Zoom to take questions and consider the absurdity of existence!
