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Eliseo Cabrera Iribar is a young Argentine-American film director living in Oakland, CA. His film Sorry I Like To Party, was recently rejected from South By Southwest music, arts, and interactive festival for being [1] After Graduating U.C. Berkeley in 2007 he began thinking about making films. In November 2009 he shot Sorry I Like To Party with co-director Erik Stinson. [2]

Style

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Cabrera employs a style of film making heavily influenced by early low-budget film makers like John Cassavetes, experimental film, queer cinema (especially John Waters), various New Waves of National Cinema, and by the emergence of cheap digital production and internet distribution. He shoots on very inexpensive cameras, often using VHS or flash-drive style .mov HD video recorders.

Content

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Cabrera's films have been described by critics as neo-pulp and VHScore. He is influenced, conceptually, by

Controversy

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Statements made on the Sorry I Like To Party website indicate that Cabrera strongly dislikes mumblecore.


References

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  1. ^ "too lo-fi."
  2. ^ The film will be published over the internet, possibly on Vimeo by Menthol University Press.
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