United Trash - Die Spalte

United Trash is aridiculously absurd and phantasmagorically boisterous mix of messianic epic, cocaine-fuelled soap opera, primitive myth and surrealistic delirium with Dadaist logic, as well as a work lying somewhere between conceptual creative experimentation and loutishly retarded amateurism, which gives the impression of the deformed offspring resulting from an orgy attended by Jean-Luc Godard, Alejandro Jodorowsky, John Waters, Tommy Wiseau and Neil Breen. It is basically a nice film about the messiah, who, instead of the simple and carefree times of the Bible, has the misfortune of being born into the chaotic and meaningless age of UN peace missions, which futilely conceal their absurdity by importing seemingly advanced civilisation into the world of instinct. Schlingensief creates a deliberately overwrought and ridiculous fresco of a world turned on its head, where the saviour has an enormous cunt on his head and his mother is the overaged sexploitation legend Kitten Natividad and his theoretical father is Udo Kier in the role of a gay UN general. Though it would be easy to discard this work as a case of poorly considered amateurism, it is bizarrely captivating in its deliriously recombined perversity and cunning denigration all authorities, from peacekeepers and churches to doctors without (ethical) borders. (05.12.2018)