Dogs Don’t Wear Pants & The Whalebone Box coming to Blu-ray

Anti-Worlds brings two films to the UK Blu-ray market for the first time: the Finnish drama Dogs Don’t Wear Pants and the mesmerising The Whalebone Box. The wonderful Anti-Worlds label is releasing their next wave of Blu-ray discs ready for pre-order, this time with Dogs Don’t Wear Pants and The Whalebone Box. More about each release below. Dogs Don’t Wear Pants An extras packed edition of Finnish writer/director Jukka – Pekka Valkeapää’s stunning film Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, it arrives after a successful streaming release last year. If you’re not aware of the film, the story follows Juha – a successful neurosurgeon – who develops an unexpected but powerful connection with a dominatrix named Mona, following a tragic event in his life that has left him emotionally paralyzed. His dangerous addiction to suffocation is reciprocated by Mona leading them both down a wild and crazy path towards emotional enlightenment. The full list of extra features:

• High Definition presentation

• Classified fully uncut by the BBFC

• Original 5.1 surround sound

• Newly recorded in-depth interview with writer-director J-P Valkeapää (2020, 20 mins):

• Newly filmed interviews with the stars of the film: Krista Kosonen and Pekka Strang

• MK3D audio interview with film critic Mark Kermode

• English language audio commentary by writer-director J-P Valkeapää

• Storyboard to screen comparisons

• Downloadable storyboards for the entire film

• Behind the scenes stills gallery

• Theatrical trailer

• Optional English translation subtitles

• Limited edition exclusive 24-page booklet containing new writing on the film by Anna Bogutskaya and Evrim Ersoy, and film credits

• Limited edition of 3,000 copies

  The Whalebone Box Releasing not only on Blu-ray, but Anti-Worlds has also teamed up with Invada Records for a limited edition double coloured vinyl soundtrack to the film – available in a bundle with the film disc.

Part history, part myth, part fiction part documentary – but always a fascinating and original cinematic experience. A whalebone box found washed up on the shore. Is it an enigmatic object containing a secret? A survivor from a shipwreck? It was given to Iain Sinclair, Kötting’s walking companion on his latest jaunt themed film. They set out on an expedition to take this box to its place of origin, a beach on the Isle of Harris in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. Artist Eden Kötting helps shape the film, and in many ways it’s an ode to her indomitable spirit. Shot using mainly super 8 and super 8 apps and incorporating elements of archive and pinhole photography, The Whalebone Box celebrates the notion of the home-made but is also an idiosyncratic road map.

The limited-edition disc features a ton of extras including interviews with the stars Krista Kosonen and Pekka Strang, as well as Mark Kermode. The full list:

• High Definition presentation

• Classified fully uncut by the BBFC

• Original 5.1 surround sound

• Newly recorded in-depth interview with writer-director J-P Valkeapää (2020, 20 mins):

• Newly filmed interviews with the films stars: Krista Kosonen and Pekka Strang

• MK3D audio interview with film critic Mark Kermode

• English language audio commentary by writer-director J-P Valkeapää

• Storyboard to screen comparisons

• Downloadable storyboards for the entire film

• Behind the scenes stills gallery

• Theatrical trailer

• Optional English translation subtitles

• Limited edition exclusive 24-page booklet containing new writing on the film by Anna Bogutskaya and Evrim Ersoy, and film credits

• Limited edition of 3,000 copies

  Both films and the vinyl disk are available for pre-order now. More details here.  

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