A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
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A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

Released Fantasy
01 Jan, 1972 17min
 

A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

Released Fantasy
01 Jan, 1972 17min
 

Directed by Jamaa Fanaka

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust” presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972). Often out of focus with an overactive camera, the film immediately exudes nervous energy, but unlike Priest’s elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly, Willie’s arm gushes blood as he injects heroin. A morality tale in two reels. —Jan-Christopher Horak

Directed by Jamaa Fanaka

Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust” presented with a non-synchronous soundtrack and superimposed over a remake of Super Fly (1972). Often out of focus with an overactive camera, the film immediately exudes nervous energy, but unlike Priest’s elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly, Willie’s arm gushes blood as he injects heroin. A morality tale in two reels. —Jan-Christopher Horak
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