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Death Print Film Premiere
Review and photos by Diana Poussin
Published August 28, 2009
On the evening of August 8th, the Miami artsy scene trooped out in combat boots and Guevara berets to the Colony Theater to watch Aiden Dillard’s latest film, Death Print. The film — which involves several shootout scenes with a Cuban communist operative and a vigilante art dealer — is a reverence to the 1980s' movie series Death Wish. What really caught the audience’s attention, though, was the film’s heavy dose of eccentricity, quirkiness, strawberry-syrup-blood, and hard-to-miss rubber latex.
Review: Death Print Movie Premiere and Afterparty, August 8
By Arielle Castillo
Published: Tuesday, Aug. 11 2009
A few minutes into the premiere this past Saturday night of Death Print, the latest full-length feature from local left-field director Aiden Dillard, the movie's overall theme became clear. Sure, there was a plot about the bloody battle between a rogue Cuban communist operative and a vengeful vigilante art dealer, but what we were watching was PS14: The Movie. If terrorists had dropped a bomb on the screening, the downtown Miami bar and its spiritual-sister establishments would have suddenly lost a large chunk of their patrons, promoters, and entertainers.
By John Linn
Published on January 14, 2009
by Dominick Siriani
Published on July 15, 2009
REV Miami Previews Aiden Dillard’s Death Print
by Ric Delgado
Published on January 19, 2009
Murder! Drama! Revenge! Girls in tight latex outfits! What?? Aiden Dillard’s newest film, Death Print, appears to be an absurd take on the “revenge” film genre. I love how Death Print is distinctly a Dillard movie, continuing in the absurd style of a particular genre. Aiden’s last film Special Angelz, which was reviewed by REV Miami as part of the Borscht Film Festival coverage, was an absurd morality-based family film. Ted Vernon (who also stars in Death Print) as the worst possible caricature of a bully is priceless. He actually pushes an autistic child to the ground at one point.
SCHADENFREUDE a wunderkammer of voyeurism curated by Daniel Newman
Posted October 22, 2008
This month’s second Saturday gallery walk saw the attention drawn from the hubbub of the Wynwood Art District to the Design District, where artists Aiden Dillard and Daniel Newman combined forces to present a symbiotic gesture of excess and duality: An exhibition of sadism and humor entitled SCHADENFREUDE, curated by Daniel Newman; and DEATH PRINT, a High-Def art-world action movie directed by Aiden Dillard. Conversely, each event harked to the fragility of their common inception yet enriched and validated the others existence, which in the presence of a film crew, a sparkling navy blue Bentley and with a glamorous piece of prime real estate stuffed with hot, outrageous contemporary art as the setting, appeared for all intents and purposes about as official, moneyed and exclusive as any large scale production in Miami could.
