Tag: avant-garde
Robert Wilson’s avant-garde TURANDOT for Teatro Real
The New York Times once described the queer avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson as [America]’s – or even the world’s – foremost vanguard ‘theater artist.’ If you are familiar with any of Wilson’s remarkable body of work, you will appreciate that this is a well-deserved accolade. After twenty years of absence, Puccini’s Turandot was…
Funeral Parade of Roses
This is a re-issue of the seminal edgy Japanese arthouse movie from 1969 that for a very long time was unavailable in the U.S. even though is was one of major influence for Stanley Kubrick when he made A Clockwork Orange. It is very loosely based on the ancient Greek legend of Oedipus (the…
Discreet
Experimental filmmaker Travis Mathews latest movie starts out with a kaleidoscope of slightly bizarre and unrelated images before he rolls out the bare bones of the story. We are never too sure the genre he is aiming for as what we assume at the beginning is probably intended as an audio visual art piece but…
Little Gay Boy
With his last short film completed French theater/actor turned filmmaker Antony Hickling brings his wonderful surreal triptych to the screen. In the nearest thing there is to a plot in this bizarre kaleidoscope of images and art, it is essentially the story of a young gay boy, from his birth to his teenage years, in which he…
Bob Wilson’s Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
The acclaimed avant-garde theater and opera director Robert Wilson was passing through New York one day when he received an urgent phone call from his friend Marina Abramovic, the celebrated performance artist, demanding that he should see her immediately. When he protested that he was busy the whole day, she didn’t let up. ‘I NEED…
