the King of Weird..Kenneth Pinyan
In the world of weird, there is weird and then there is WEIRD. Kenneth Pinyan was WEIRD.He was depraved..he was sick. He was a Boeing aerospace engineer and businessman at the time of his death. His death was both untimely and highly unusual in that it came due to engaging in receptive anal sex with a stallion. He suffered a perforated colon afterwards and fearful that his injuries would adversely affect his career, refused to go to seek medical treatment.
Later a documentary film about Pinyan was made called Zoo. It was one of 16 award winners out of 856 entries in 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival.It was also chosen as one of the top five American films to be presented at the Directors Fortnight sidebar at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Highly acclaimed because of it's sensitive treatment of a very delicate subject the Toronto Star said "gorgeously artful ... one of the most beautifully restrained, formally distinctive and mysterious films of the entire festival".
So, in the world of weird there is weird and then there is Kenneth Pinyan who by all rights might be the King of Weird.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002384648_farm16m.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(film)
Later a documentary film about Pinyan was made called Zoo. It was one of 16 award winners out of 856 entries in 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival.It was also chosen as one of the top five American films to be presented at the Directors Fortnight sidebar at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Highly acclaimed because of it's sensitive treatment of a very delicate subject the Toronto Star said "gorgeously artful ... one of the most beautifully restrained, formally distinctive and mysterious films of the entire festival".
So, in the world of weird there is weird and then there is Kenneth Pinyan who by all rights might be the King of Weird.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002384648_farm16m.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(film)
Comments
I recorded "Zoo" on my DVR a couple of months ago. It sucked. I kept waiting for something to happen and nothing ever did. It was nothing but pigslop, don't waste your time watching it. I was waiting for weirdness that never came, all the while the only weird thing about this movie is that it could win an award of any sort.
The fact that this movie sucks in no way detracts from the weirdness of Kenneth Pinyan.
The fact that this movie sucks in no way detracts from the weirdness of Kenneth Pinyan.
Posted by qualityleashdog on 05/05/09 at 07:35 PM
LOL right you are stpatme..that's what he gets for horsing around
Posted by hickory_johnson on 05/05/09 at 11:15 PM
I did hear about Mr. Hands when I was researching Pinyan. One video in Youtube cited a chat room where this guy kept getting booted and he kept re-entering using a different ID just so he could show this video.The youtuber even mentioned the Mr. Hands moniker. Thanks for that info AHC. As I'm sure you surmised, I don't have the stomach for it nor did Pinyan apparently.
Posted by hickory_johnson on 05/06/09 at 12:42 AM
"Too much?"
Posted by Jmonkeh on 05/06/09 at 09:07 AM
StarThrower, the Wiki link led to nothing two months ago as well. I don't think the film inspired anyone to ever write an article describing it.
"Zoo" was like every two-minute newscast you've ever seen where they interview the neighbors of the guy who committed the latest heinous crime...drug ring, child porn, shooting rampage, what have you. "They were always quiet, stuck to themselves...We're all shocked to find this out...Don't know why you're interviewing us, we can tell you absolutely nothing...Except that we were shocked to learn of this." Imagine that, from the same few people, playing over and over interspersed with footage of stables and rural Washington. Two hours of that, you learn absolutely nothing. You connect to no one in the film. Not that I was looking for disgusting, graphic depictions of the events, but I looked to be able to connect, understand something of the people in the film, which they did not deliver on. I perpetually felt as if I had walked in on the middle of something, and had no background info at all, ever, in order to understand any of it.
"Zoo" was like every two-minute newscast you've ever seen where they interview the neighbors of the guy who committed the latest heinous crime...drug ring, child porn, shooting rampage, what have you. "They were always quiet, stuck to themselves...We're all shocked to find this out...Don't know why you're interviewing us, we can tell you absolutely nothing...Except that we were shocked to learn of this." Imagine that, from the same few people, playing over and over interspersed with footage of stables and rural Washington. Two hours of that, you learn absolutely nothing. You connect to no one in the film. Not that I was looking for disgusting, graphic depictions of the events, but I looked to be able to connect, understand something of the people in the film, which they did not deliver on. I perpetually felt as if I had walked in on the middle of something, and had no background info at all, ever, in order to understand any of it.
Posted by qualityleashdog on 05/06/09 at 10:32 PM
Actually, there is a Wiki article, and it is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_(film) Unfortunately it reads as if it were written by those who stand to make a buck off convincing you to see the 'movie.'
I challenge anyone who has seen the 'movie' to write a plot section for the Wikipedia article. I say it cannot be done.
I challenge anyone who has seen the 'movie' to write a plot section for the Wikipedia article. I say it cannot be done.
Posted by qualityleashdog on 05/07/09 at 12:17 AM
thanks qld for that input..wow and it had such glowing reviews;more so about the way it was handled I suspect, than the actual content. Being from Washington, this was probably the most notorious case I've ever heard of here.People were talking..a lot.It's not just weird,it's bizarre to my way of thinking.I don't think anyone could ever imagine such a thing taking place.
Posted by hickory_johnson on 05/07/09 at 12:20 AM
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