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First in the program, Eliot Feld's "Contra Pose" (1990) is nothing short of profound. It astounds by constantly merging and deconstructing different aspects of dance, creating a barrage of visual images that collide and regroup like highly-charged atomic particles...
...three-year campaign of assassination and sabotage between government and guerrillas has risen to the point where the lives of up to 1,000 victims are snuffed out every week. Together with an economic tailspin that has reduced the gross domestic product 8%, the violence has ushered in a profound social and political paralysis from which it seems all but impossible to break free...
...young man, stumbles into their apartment during an important dinner with a stab wound in his side. As the evening progresses, Paul claims to be a friend of their children's at Harvard and a son of Sidney Poitier. He charms everyone in sight with his elegant manner and profound literary insights. It is only when the Kittredges awake to find him sleeping with a male prostitute in the guest bedroom that his facade is shattered. Soon it becomes clear that Paul, whose real last name is never discovered, has played the same trick on several of their children...
Bosna! deserves its exclamation point. It is a disturbing documentary which unearths and presents images of the war in ex-Yugoslavia. Profound and terrifying, "Bosna!"s images speak louder, and more engagingly, than the voice of its narrator and partialcreator, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy...
...avoiding edgy fanaticism to render her apocalyptic yearnings as lyric. Goor's Andrew, home from the Gulf War, is shellacked in gold, silent and frozen. When he launches vigorously into a tightly woven monologue about the bliss and religious rapture of bombing Baghdad, he is both uncompromisingly hysterical and profound...