Word: minotaurs
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...This is precisely the type of film one would find at this festival that simply could not be found anywhere else. Daniel Sousa's Minotaur (one of 9 RISD-affiliated entries) was an absolutely staggering 9-minute animation that took almost three years to complete. Joe Gibbon's Multiple Barbie began as a one-joke film of a man psychoanalyzing a schizophrenic Barbie-doll and then slowly morphed into a profound exploration of the director's own psychoses. Wendy MacNeil and Alice Wingwall gave us their Miss Blindsight: The Wingwall Auditions, a complex documentary about an artist who has lost...
...clubbing on Mykonos until 6 a.m. enjoying a dollar-fifty pack of Davidoff’s. After drinking myself into a profound stupor, I found myself in the arms of a minotaur: half-human, half-beast...
...contempt for women artists. His famous remark about women being "goddesses or doormats" has rendered him odious to feminists, but women tended to walk into both roles open-eyed and eagerly, for his charm was legendary. Whole cultural industries derived from his much mythologized virility. He was the Minotaur in a canvas-and-paper labyrinth of his own construction...
...write--it is probably the least successful element of what is essentially a comic story. Chabon's strength is his witty, graceful, delicately absurd style, and his attempt to turn his comic creations into bearers of a secret curse does not come off. Grady remains a Rabelaisian "minotaur," too devoted to sex, marijuana and adventure ever to seem suicidal; even James is more quirky than disturbed...
...collective memory of the war against the predator beasts is preserved in myth and fairy tale. Typically, a mythical hero starts out by taking on the carnivorous monster that is ravaging the land: Perseus saves Andromeda from becoming a sea monster's snack. Theseus conquers the Minotaur who likes to munch on Athenian youth. Beowulf destroys the loathsome night-feeding Grendel. Heracles takes on a whole zoo of horrors: lions, hydras, boars. In European fairy tales it's the wolves you have to watch out for -- if the cannibal witches don't get you first...