Charles Pinion

Charles Pinion

History

Charles Pinion is a visual artist and director who made the punk rock skateboard zombie movie Twisted Issues, the post-Cinema of Transgression witches in the snow movie Red Spirit Lake, and the gritty San Francisco cannibal movie We Await.

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Charles Pinion

Movies

Try Again
Director
TRY AGAIN brings us into the mind of Walt Eichner, a middle-aged failure on the verge of ending it all. However, it turns out Walt isn’t any better at ending his life than he is at living it. Each attempt to formulate his grand demise is stymied by circumstance and bad planning, leading Walt to consider that suicide isn’t the neat solution he thought it would be.
American Mummy
Writer
The skeleton crew of a dig site remain over the weekend as they continue with research into a mummy they’ve found. One of them takes the research a little too far, performing a ritual to bring the spirit of the mummy back to life.
American Mummy
Editor
The skeleton crew of a dig site remain over the weekend as they continue with research into a mummy they’ve found. One of them takes the research a little too far, performing a ritual to bring the spirit of the mummy back to life.
American Mummy
Director
The skeleton crew of a dig site remain over the weekend as they continue with research into a mummy they’ve found. One of them takes the research a little too far, performing a ritual to bring the spirit of the mummy back to life.
Cornhole Armageddon
Director
A mysterious cult leader inspires a nationwide craze for anal sex – a "Cornhole Armageddon" – where its followers become possessed with the Spirit of Sodomy, sprout glitter stigmata, foam at the mouth, and succumb to an overwhelming desire to sodomise each other.
Debbie Does Damnation
Debbie goes to hell after she commits suicide. When she gets there she finds herself in the middle of a power struggle. The Devil asks her to get his horns back so that he can regain control of his realm.
We Await
Cinematography
Via Cinema Contra Cinema: " [Filmmaker Charles] Pinion's third video, WE AWAIT (1996), was set in San Francisco's Mission district, and locates its action within the psychic and social confines of a family of cannibals who are slowly possessed by a sentient psychoactive green fungus."
We Await
Barrett
Via Cinema Contra Cinema: " [Filmmaker Charles] Pinion's third video, WE AWAIT (1996), was set in San Francisco's Mission district, and locates its action within the psychic and social confines of a family of cannibals who are slowly possessed by a sentient psychoactive green fungus."
We Await
Writer
Via Cinema Contra Cinema: " [Filmmaker Charles] Pinion's third video, WE AWAIT (1996), was set in San Francisco's Mission district, and locates its action within the psychic and social confines of a family of cannibals who are slowly possessed by a sentient psychoactive green fungus."
We Await
Director
Via Cinema Contra Cinema: " [Filmmaker Charles] Pinion's third video, WE AWAIT (1996), was set in San Francisco's Mission district, and locates its action within the psychic and social confines of a family of cannibals who are slowly possessed by a sentient psychoactive green fungus."
Dirty
Inspired by and loosely based on the introduction to Blue Of Noon by Georges Bataille, the title was taken from the name of the main character. It is a short portrayal of one person's descent into a state of degradation. In spite of her affluence, Dirty is rendered helpless in the hands of those she sought to patronise. The shifting points of view of this film allow the viewer to experience the protagonist as she is seen by herself, and how the world sees her.
Red Spirit Lake
Producer
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.
Red Spirit Lake
Editor
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.
Red Spirit Lake
Director of Photography
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.
Red Spirit Lake
Caretaker
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.
Red Spirit Lake
Writer
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.
Red Spirit Lake
Director
After a vengeful sorceress is tortured and killed by a corrupt industrialist looking to harness the spectral powers of Red Spirit Lake, her niece arrives in snow covered Angel Falls to settle her aunt's estate.
Metal Noir
Laurel Oberion thinks she's buying a nice house, but gets more than she bargained for! Haunted by a dead anthropologist and his satanic wife, Laurel's newfound home turns into a bloodbath of sexual desires when pain and pleasure mix indiscriminately. A basement of terror hides the secret... blood flows as human sacrifice leads to resurrection of a Dark God... and only Laurel can stop it before it's too late! Writer's block becomes psychotic madness in METAL NOIR, where blood-spattered sex leads to face-stabbing gore!
Twisted Issues
Editor
Low budget shot-on-video gore film with comical overtones concerns a skateboarding teen's murder. Rising from the dead with his skateboard, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree.
Twisted Issues
Director of Photography
Low budget shot-on-video gore film with comical overtones concerns a skateboarding teen's murder. Rising from the dead with his skateboard, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree.
Twisted Issues
Writer
Low budget shot-on-video gore film with comical overtones concerns a skateboarding teen's murder. Rising from the dead with his skateboard, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree.
Madball
Director
Charles Pinion's student film. Part of the Feller Triptych. Shot in 1988 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Twisted Issues
Director
Low budget shot-on-video gore film with comical overtones concerns a skateboarding teen's murder. Rising from the dead with his skateboard, he embarks on a vengeful killing spree.