Recorded live in Brazil in 1998, Live is a pretty straight-up live performance (hence the name), with no frills, overdubs, extra features, or backstage antics.
Like a Monty Python skits mixing actors in surreal environments and illustrated worlds with a lotta gore and drooling and spooge, but take away most, um, sense.
While there’s the usual chaotic quick-cutting to confuse you, even just straight-on shots of the bald-headed’n’goateed singer, Ihsahn, are pretty scary.
Quills works much better than Stardom because Kaufman is probably one of the only filmmakers working today other than David Lynch or Matthew Bright who understands that if you’re making a flick about or relating to smut, you must also be smutty in your filmmaking.