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A really influential collaboration for me is Michael Clark and Charles Atlas. Michael Clark is a choreographer who merges punk music, fashion and formal dance in a flamboyant, yet technical style. Charles Atlas gives a frame to the performances. I find myself craving the guided gaze of cinema in live performances, but it can be hard to conceive of when the cut should be and where the camera should be. I’ve seen performance best documented in the silent comedies of Buster Keaton and in the camera work of Charles Atlas.
Jan 18, 2024
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actors generally don’t know how to use their bodies anymore, just their faces. Chaning is different.
Nobody moves like this guy, he’s like sexy buster keaton and his dance friends are like the sexy three stooges. in addition to its many artistic merits, this film is also the best depiction of the low key but oft-ignored homoeroticism that permeates male friendships
Dec 18, 2023
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Changed my life and how I saw film as a medium and the act of vision itself.if youre lucky and live in nyc always check anthology for screenings cause you won’t want to miss his work screened on film. Youtube has a bunch of his work I linked to one of my favs.
Feb 4, 2024
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'Mozart in Love' and 'The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk' are particular favorites.
Dec 19, 2023
Top Recs from @sharleen
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I would never tell a lie.
Jan 18, 2024
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The Sacred Idol is a gorgeously cinematic soundtrack that was made for a movie that was never released. It’s mysterious and fantastical. It transports you to some other imaginary dimension. I suggest you avoid looking at pictures of Les Baxter as this may ruin the music for you. The genre of exotica is kinda fucked up mashing up disperate cultures of South America, Africa, the Southeast Asia and the Levant without having any knowledge of the cultures. I’m half Peruvian-half Lebanese, so I too am a mashup of disparate cultures. There must be some metaphor within exotica for people like me. Growing up 1st gen American never feeling fully connected to either of my ethnicities and maybe I relate to this pictorial version of “exotic” cultures.
Jan 18, 2024
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I’m in a little Glenn Branca phase right now. Sometimes his pieces are too much. This video is probably my favorite performance of his. I like the way he ‘conducts’ the guitar orchestra like it’s a dance. His convulsions are similar to kids slam dancing to hardcore; the same way his pieces are like elongated punk songs. Also he’s from my hometown of Harrisburg, PA.
Jan 18, 2024