From My Cold Dead Hands
Directed by Javier Horcajada
Official selection
Raindance Film Festival 2024
Director
Javier Horcajada
Producer
Roberto Butragueño
Writer
Javier Horcajada
contact
Sideral Cinema SL
It’s no surprise that you can find all kinds of bizarre things on YouTube, from conspiracy nuts to pet videos and videos of people generally acting stupid, but gun videos seem to hold a very special place in the pantheon. Everything from stunt challenges, gun tutorials, and product reviews to second-amendment rants and lots and lots of enthusiasts showing off, so if you want to watch gun videos, you’ll be set for a very long time. And let’s be honest with ourselves, you may never want to touch a gun in your life, but there’s definitely a bizarre fascination with this culture, and guns themselves have been a staple of cinema since the days of THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. Hell, films with massive amounts of gun violence have screened throughout the history of Fantasia, so we're just as fascinated with this stuff as most others are.
Shootings! Explosions! Musical numbers! Javier Horcajada Fontecha's FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS is a good primer of what you can find if you choose to look (or never look), a jaw-dropping exploration of gun culture in the United States made from thousands of hours of YouTube videos that’s by turns amusing, hilarious (not always intentionally so), bizarre, even impressive (there’s some pretty sharp shooting here). And, yeah, terrifying in ways their creators (or America’s forefathers) did not intend, playing like a strange, real-life sister act to the darkest ROBOCOP-era Paul Verhoeven satire. You can take it as a document of our troubled times or as a piece of entertainment, it offers no opinions and just presents everything matter-of-factly. It’s all real and the really insane part is that this is just the tip of a very, very big iceberg that continues to grow, and like guns themselves, you can’t take your eyes off it. That may be the most frightening thing of all. – Ed Patrick
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