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...Camp's performance is apparent in the variety of moods and postures his Jamie takes as he emotionally gropes for a solution to save his mother and brother, and this studied totality makes Camp as compelling to watch reacting to other character's lines as delivering his own. His wordless pantomime of his mother's addiction is the most frightening moment of the play. Camp's performance shows a fine understanding of his character but he allows the audience to arrive at their own analysis of the many details of Jamie's actions and words, rather than delivering one, polished...
After all this visual and aural input, the final installation of the series, "The Greeting," is a break-through exploration of the power of a single, wordless gesture. In this video, presented simply in an empty room on a conventional screen, two women are approached by a third who embraces one of the women and whispers something in her ear. A few seconds of film is stretched to twenty times its original length, and every subtle, lovely element of the total motion is exposed to attention our impatient eyes would typically be unable to observe. The piece is simple, monumental...
Just after announcing that he was retiring his daily syndicated cartoon, Gary Larson brought his mordant wit to TV for the first time in this weird, wordless animated special. Highlight: a sentimental wolf weeps over home movies. Unearthly and wonderful...
Since the band's strengths are in the music, these instrumentals have solid sounds that continue to switch from stony to eerie In the song "Seattle," wordless except for the occasional "Seattle," the samples make you perk your ears and wonder what the track would sound like backwards. Otherwise, the instrumentals continue with the band's quality noise...
...festival, one excellent film is a fluke, two are a faint promise. Cannes '93 has showcased a dozen or so delights, including Mike Leigh's comic scorcher Naked, from Britain, and Alain Cavalier's potent French film Libera Me, a deadpan document, in wordless closeup, of political prisoners and their torturers in an unnamed country -- any country, alas. Wim Wenders' Faraway, So Close!, a sequel of sorts to his great Wings of Desire, is a monumentally quirky film essay that gradually, and satisfyingly, surrenders to the conventions of the thriller genre. The festival had two out-of-nowhere finds, both...