Marina Antunes [Bunker Blueprint 01.11.13] arthouse avant-garde



Could this be the wackiest crowd funding campaign you've seen in a while? Very likely.

Take Italian arthouse director Davide Manuli, known for his strange experimental movies (including last year's The Legend of Kaspar Hauser starring Vincent Gallo), mix in Abel Ferrara in a starring role and you have Haiku.


The story is that of a father and daughter who have never seen each other who meet on a mountain top the day the father has planned to commit suicide. Ferrara plays the father while Serb actress Isidora Simijonovic (the newcomer who took home the acting prize at Rotterdam for Clip last year) plays his daughter.

Manuli's goal is to be the first film at either Cannes or Berlin entirely funded through Indiegogo. He's got 80 days to raise 110,000 euros for a crazy bit of arthouse filmmaking. How crazy? You just have to check out the detailed synopsis and the 15 page script, both linked on the project's Indiegogo campaign page, to see for yourself.

I can't resist. I shelled over 10 euros just in hopes that I have the chance to see whatever comes from this self described "Low-budget silent Art-house feature in Jodorowsky's style."

And if you're curious about Manuli's work, check out this fantastically odd trailer for The Legend of Kaspar Hauser.

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