purfled promises

Purfled Promises / video / 10 min / 2009

Purfled Promises was a work of expanded cinema. Two neo-drag entities entered the cinema and held a screen in front of the auditorium's red curtain on which a video was shown that consisted entirely of zooming shots of veils revealing more veils, increasingly baroque in nature until a voice over addressed the audience directly. As we'd been watching these 'reveals' it told us that what we hadn't noticed was the screen itself which was moving slowly closer towards us. At which point we did notice this and the screen kept on coming, its supporters clambering over the cinema's seats and audience's heads, finally laying it down on top of half a dozen of them who had to struggle out of it as the cinema lights came on. - Ian White, Lux Blog

hands SHOLEM KRISHTALKA CLAIRE PANTHÈRE KATHLEEN SMITH camera IRIS NG assistant CHRIS CURRERI set pieces DAVID FRANKOVICH gloves ANTHONY HILL voice BILLY BUZZARD recording TOM THIRD music PRINCE NIFTY thank you GALLERY TPW CAROL TANENBAUM COLLECTION BERMAN & CO CLAIRMONT FILM JOHNATHAN ADJEMIAN STUART FARNDELL RUTH SPITZER JACOB KORCZYNSKI live performance MARY MESSHAUSEN & PRODUZENTIN Commissioned by Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. for "LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World" Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

distributed by arsenal experimental berlin

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