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Still, some viral stars, like Tsui, are proceeding with caution. ("I would like to eventually be known as more than just that guy on YouTube," he says.) For two years, Irena Schulz has been fielding media offers for Snowball the cockatoo, whose Backstreet Boys dance has been seen nearly 3.3 million times. The former molecular biologist in Dyer, Ind., chooses shows for her bird carefully and has drafted legal agreements to make sure he'll be portrayed in a positive light. But despite appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Good Morning America, she says viral videos aren...
...wasn't there. For Tiwi (1990), she captured every aspect of daily life and ceremony, but it's the portraits that stay with you. Even when her subjects are naked, they are clothed in dignity. Even when they pose (one old man insisted on wearing a cockatoo-feather headdress), they are simply themselves...
...music or coolly dissect it. Many of them turn up on a video wall on which they perform and deform the text more than 30 ways, including as a Bunraku puppet show, an aria, a rap song and a clown routine. On another screen a white cockatoo grabs a paper copy in one claw and eats it. Calle does everything but attach the letter to the back of a chariot and drag it three times around the Colosseum. She may have been dumped, but she's not one to be victimized, and her installation is a revenger's comedy...
...Meantime, Kaldor just keeps on giving. Already plans are shaping up for the Urs Fischer installation on Sydney's Cockatoo Island, the lucky 13th KAP, which launches on April 19. Will it be the Swiss artist's House of Bread, an alpine chalet constructed of sourdough and home to four hungry parakeets? In any case, Kaldor insists "it will be wonderful. It will be wonderful...
...Platoon captured the dark memories in the U.S. about the Vietnam War more than a decade after the conflict had ended, several German movies indicate a toughening of opinions about the G.D.R. A handful of new releases, including one by the makers of Goodbye Lenin! called The Red Cockatoo, explore the G.D.R. and its 100,000-strong secret-police force, the Stasi, not as the subject of comedy but of cruelty and farce. The Lives of Others, which swept the prestigious Lola German Film Awards this month in Berlin, is going strong at the German box office with its story...