Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Hollywood, with its dozens of gay stars, its hundreds of gays in positions of creative and executive power, is still afraid to depict homosexual life: the world Hollywood knows, and could persuasively dramatize, Corliss says. "The whole town, timid as ever, resides in one huge, beautifully appointed celluloid closet. It?s safer, cozier in there. Why would anyone want to come...
Evolving attitudes towards the medium of film have resulted in artists whose creativity includes new way of using celluloid Of these artists. Stan Brakhage (whose work is currently in a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York) is the fore runner. Brakhage hand-paints 8, 16, 35 mm and Imax film stock sometimes using a technique which lets him paste translucent objects onto the film. Brakhage seems to tap into a deep level of emotion by projecting his tiny, beautiful swirls of color onto the large screen. The breathless tension of these intimate films reveals the influence...
...Dirdy Birdy" will partially quell Sick and Twisted fans, craving for the excellently disgusting displays only possible on celluloid gels. This birdy really is very very naughty, mooning his tree-dwelling cat-friend over and over and over again...
...Holden and von Stroheim are powerful foils to Swanson's persona, Wilder and his camera wisely sweep them to the edges of the screen to focus on Norma. Swanson's performance is something beyond acting; her Norma lives every moment on two planes, in the mundane world and on celluloid. She has a habit of pausing almost unnoticeably as she speaks, giving the effect of a flickering silent film, posing briefly for the camera, then continuing...
...highlight of my stay was when I was welcomed into the tribe as a 'celluloid brother.' All of the members of the tribe gathered around me and sang selections from old MGM musicals as I solemnly unspooled some of the film from my 35mm camera and gave it to the shaman...