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The International Film Festival Rotterdam is spotlighting two European auteurs this year: Danish filmmaker Nils Malmros and Germany filmmaker and artist Heinz Emigholz.

Malmros, the father of Danish cinema realism, will receive a retrospective of his films including Lars Ole 5.c, Boys and Tree of Knowledge; lead actor Jacob Cedergren will join Malmros to present his latest film Sorrow and Joy.

Germany’s Heinz Emigholz, who has worked across film, drawing and literature, will see Rotterdam present highlights of his documentary series Architecture as Autobiography. The series, 15 years in the making, focuses on architects such as Luis Sullivan, Bruce Goff, Adolf Loos and August Perret. Iffr and The New Institute will present highlights from the series as well as an installation. This focus is part of Signals: Regained.

Also in Signals: Regained, selections include the documentary Tresspassing Berman, Jamie Shovlin’s Rough Cut, the European premiere of a restored Andy Warhol film Tiger Morse, the super-...

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Jamie Shovlin: Hiker Meat, Manchester

Rough Cut – Jamie Shovlin's documentary about a remake of Hiker Meat, a 1970s horror that never existed – was released last year, but the background of the project is as intriguing as the film itself. An exhibition opens this Friday showing just how much Shovlin and co put into it, and a highlight for cinephiles is next Saturday's "Sleazeathon", an all-night exploitation celebration including masterpieces such as The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, slavesploitation shocker Mandingo and Dario Argento's The Bird With The Crystal Plumage.

Cornerhouse, Fri to 21 Apr

Sonic Cinema Full Moon Special, London

Where wolf? Here wolf! What better way to mark the full moon than by sloughing off your human form and howling at some lycanthropic entertainment? Marking the waning of the BFI's great Gothic season,...

You can watch a trailer for it online, but artist Jamie Shovlin's 1970s-style exploitation film is not all it seems…

Jamie Shovlin is a conman, a trickster, the most artful of dodgers. His entire career consists of elaborate hoaxes. He has faked any number of artworks, quite apart from inventing the artists themselves, beginning with the teenage prodigy Naomi V Jelish (spot the anagram), whose words and images were bought wholesale by Charles Saatchi after her strange disappearance – though that may be a fiction in itself.

Shovlin was born in Leicester in 1978 (or so it is claimed by the various galleries that represent him). He was shortlisted for the Becks Futures award in 2006 for his terrific archive of invented memorabilia for the German cult band Lustfaust, who never recorded an actual record. You got their music by sending a blank cassette (they despised the record industry) and designing your own label.

A spoof slasher film appeared in the discography of a fictitious band. Then it was constructed from snippets of 60 other movies. Now it's got its own making-of documentary

Do you remember the first time you saw the 80s exploitation horror classic Hiker Meat? Chances are you don't. Although it conjures up that innocent age when teenagers with Silvikrin locks and too-short shorts could get unironically butchered on camping holidays, Hiker Meat isn't quite what it appears to be. In fact, it doesn't even exist. Which makes it all the more peculiar that it is now the subject of a new making-of documentary called Rough Cut, an intriguing experiment that combines elements of Grindhouse and Berberian Sound Studio with a fanboy fondness for the slasher genre.

The title Hiker Meat first cropped up as an imaginary film score on the discography of a fictitious krautrock band, Lustfaust, co-created for an art...

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This Ain't California (Tbc)

(Marten Perseil, 2012, Ger) 90 mins

Just as its East German teen subjects took skateboarding behind the Iron Curtain, so this "documentary" smuggles faked footage into its true 1980s history. The result is a fascinating parallel pop-cultural history with a moving (but imaginary) human centre. Working out what's true and what's not only adds to the fun.

Nebraska (15)

(Alexander Payne, 2013, Us) Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb. 115 mins

Stubborn old Dern and son take a quixotic road trip back into family, and American, history.

Frozen (PG)

(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, 2013, Us) Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina Menzel. 108 mins

Disney's classy, sparkly assault on the Christmas holidays, with wintry vistas, musical numbers and a sister-powered fairytale.

★★☆☆☆ The essence of certain films are captured perfectly in their name. Take Rough Cut (2013), a pseudo-documentary about the making of a fictional horror movie (Hiker Meat) which is disappointing mainly because it seems just that - an unfinished mock-up of the movie the filmmakers would have liked to have made. As a result, we're never one hundred percent sure what this debut feature from visual artist Jamie Shovlin, starring Agnes Aspen, Ashley Houston and Bob Young, aspires to be. Rough Cut follows the would-be filmmakers as they head to England's Lake District to recreate the Don Quixote of slasher films, Hiker Meat.

We've seen it all in the horror genre, but a "meta-mentary?" Yeah, morbid curiosity has the best of us! Check out the first bit of goodies from the upcoming flick Rough Cut, and tell us what you think below!

Rough Cut, directed by London-based conceptual artist Jamie Shovlin, explores the making of the gloriously sleazy 1970s exploitation flick Hiker Meat, an imagined film by (fictitious) Italian director Jesus Rinzoli. Written by Mike Harte, with music by Euan Rodger, and produced by Cornerhouse Artist Film, the film is released across the UK on 6 December following a short installation version premiering at Toronto International Film Festival 2013 in the David Cronenberg: Transformations show at Mocca (5 September–29 December 2014).

While Hiker Meat is fated to remain unrealised as a complete feature, key scenes were filmed in the Lake District in June and feature in Rough Cut. These are contrasted with on-set footage and details...