92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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Tropical Malady
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Thursday Nov 5, 2009 (7:30–9:30pm)
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$12.00
Part of the series Queer/Art/Film. Presented by artist Angela Dufresne.
"Apichatpong Weerasethakul records with the subtle mortal grace and light of Peter Hujar. He clumsily yet effortlessly combines methods of cinema verité and mythical stories into feral narratives, especially in this one, Tropical Malady. Subjectivity oozes from every character, every tree and every wall of his scenes, fogging conventions, dimming ideologies and illuminating the hallucination of our socially constructed identities. Like Kurasawa, Vuillard or Vermeer—to move backwards in time through his lineage as I see it—he is ruthless, tender and sincere. These are all attributes of a great artistic sensitively and as Hujar embodies it so wonderfully, the eyes of an outsider, the marginal ones, who from their birds eye view, can see better the world than those who actually live in it not self-consciously."
—Angela Dufresne
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 118 min. 2004. 35mm.
Curated by Butt magazine contributing editor Adam Baran and filmmaker Ira Sachs, the Queer/Art/Film series invites some of the most exciting, innovative (and homosexual) artists from the dance/performance/film/visual and literary arts to present and discuss their favorite films, in rare prints, on the big screen.
