Fri, 07/20/2007 - 19:45 — abracadabra
The black and white images in the trailer on the home page... I'm guessing they're from early works because they don't look like any of the films I've seen. Where are they from? They all seem to be full of movement and stories... especially the one in the swimming pool! Where can I find out more about these pieces?
Hi Sally,
I was doing some research for an essay about feminism in "La bohéme" and got really enrolled in your film Thriller. The trouble is that I haven´t found any supplier yet who could actually sell me a copy of what seems to be the most interesting and mind-opening insight into certain aspects of that fantastic opera. Any extra material that you could provide would be highly appreciated. I am a student at the Rose Bruford College doing a B.A. in opera studies and I am involved in an amateur opera project in Frankfurt. (Some brave person gave me the chance of directing it!)
Thanks for your help,
Kay
Yes, the images are from early works, including WINGS, WHEAT and DEATH AND THE MAIDEN. The swimming pool image is from BERLIN ,a collaboration with Rose English, which took place in a house, on an ice rink and in a swimming pool in london on a series of Saturdays. In those days live performance was my primary medium, though I harboured desires to return to film. In live work I was resolutely against documentation and as a consequence few traces remain of those pieces. I felt that if work was to be live it need to be dedicated to a sense of the present moment and to the audience in front of ones eyes, not made with an eye secretly focussed on posterity. Film, on the other hand, brought a feeling of the present into an unknown future and for an unknown audience. The internet has provided a way for me to know some of those unknowables in surprising ways.