Film Categories: Literary/theatre
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Passion Crucified
“Passion Crucified” is an episodic rite of passage rendered in tableau style. Part creation myth, part medieval science fiction, it enacts a typology of the body – offering us glimpses of Adam, Eve, Christ and Joan of Arc. Together they are figured as subterranean ideals, which continue to haunt us, even as they provide the means by which we might come to understand our own bodies. Begun as a dance performance, Torossian recasts her naked charge into a series of phantasmagoric settings – trees whose fruit show the faces of Medici children, drunken underground rooms filled with a rotting, natural…
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Pat’s Birthday
A day in the country with Claes Oldenburg and the Ray Gun Theatre Players, including such classic items as the haunted house, a gas station, an ice cream stand, miniature golf, airplane noises, and balloons. Things happen after each other in this film only because there isn’t room for everything at once. After all, time is not supposed to move in one direction any more than it does in another.
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Pierre Vallières
He delivered three essays, without stopping, except for reel change and camera breakdown: 1) Mont Laurier; 2) Quebec history and race; 3) women’s liberation. Everything which happened is recorded on film. It was a one-shot affair, I either got him on film or I missed. What we see on film is the mouth of a revolutionary, extremely close, his lips, his teeth, his spittle, his tongue which rolls so beautifully through his French, and finally the reflections in his teeth of the window behind me. (JW)