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...next two exhibitions are video pieces composed by Isaac Julien, a London-based filmmaker who has spent most of the 90s working on film-based installations. His newest piece, “Vagabondia,” is similar to “Inflight” because the artwork in itself has a lot to do with its atmosphere. While walking to the viewing site, you pass through a small hallway that is lined with black egg-crate padding. In front, a subdued red light and mellow chimes entice you to enter. And once inside, the double screen film installation seduces...
Something About The Girl, now at the Bernard Toale Gallery, takes a refreshing look at the life of female identity in photography. Curator Julien Tomasello rightly chose to include a single piece (or series) by each of the seven artists represented, making the show an intimate dialogue between the pieces. Among the four men and three women photographers are two of my favorites, David Hilliard and Francesca Woodman. Also represented is Linn Underhill, who uses herself as her own model. She dresses up to look like a debonair of the late '40s, reversing the concept of drag queen to drag...
...mission statement to scale down cinema and bring an honesty, directness,and more personal style that was previously found in filmmaking giants such as Bresson, Dreyer and Ozu. This decree has spawned the use of handheld video over 35mm film, as well as bizarre filmic experiments such as julien donkey-boy, Mifune and The Celebration...
...teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this moment that seemed like pathetic weakness was actually a window into his humanity...
...Julien has had an accomplished career in cinema himself, with work displayed at numerous museums and film festivals...