Title Graphics design for silent digital video The Girl Who Followed Marple, 10 min., 2014. With Lucy McKenzie and Richard Kern, Alison Yip, Thea Westreich, Ashley Carr, Suzanne Modica, Beca Lipscombe, and Duncan Hannah Filmed by Richard Kern. Decor by Lucile Desamory and Caitlin Keough
HOUSE STYLE
HOUSE STYLE presents a series of new commissions initiated by Panel with Annette Lux and Steven Cairns in response to, and alongside, a specially selected film programme sourced from the British Film Institute National Archive. HOUSE STYLE takes as its starting point a monthly Technicolor film series called Roundabout (1962–1974). Roundabout was designed to promote Britain… Read more »
My Throat My Air
In Fahrenholz’s films, dialogue is often recited affectlessly, even as interlocutors are copulating as in Implosion (2011). But here the distanced delivery seems less owed to Bertolt Brecht than to the numbness of the characters and the coldness of their relationships: Fahrenholz treats filmic forms, narrative, and actors’ performances as discrete elements, meaningful structures that… Read more »
Ditch Plains
Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Ditch Plains (HDV, 29 mins) is a dystopian sci-fi street dance film featuring members of Ringmasters Crew. Like avatars running the levels of an apocalyptic video game, Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn and Marty McFly hallucinate the city and its networks… Read more »
Implosion
Based on a play by Kathy Acker, this thirty-minute film is an experiment in translation, not only between mediums and formats but between decades and bodies. IMPLOSION (2011) can be seen as a continuation or exacerbation of a literary gesture initiated by Acker, who set a drama about the French Revolution in late 1970s New… Read more »
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