God how I wish I was in NYC this week! Why?. It's time for the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival AKA MIX NYC. The festival kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday, November 22. Tonight's program is called Opening Night: Making All Local Stops and it features a short biography of Derek Jarman, a film by Gina Carducci & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and 11 other amazing looking films and videos by filmmakers from around the world.
I would like to say that there is one standout, must-see program at this year's festival, but after looking over the schedule every night features some sort of amazingness! (Did I mention how I wished I was in NYC for this?) However, if I had to choose only one, my gut would lead me toward tomorrow night. The show is titled Our Gorgeous Nightmares and is described like this on the MIX website:
"In the shadow of Jean Cocteau, Derek Jarman, and James Bidgood, this is an ensemble of artists who are taking their inspiration from the underworlds of the psyche and transcribing it into high-art. Where some have an aversion to expressions like “avant-garde” and “haute cinema,” others see hungry image-makers whose experimentation is ripe and dripping with glamor. We present to you a banquet of fragrant imagery and flagrant catastrophe, fashioned by directors making love with designers and actors doubling as models poised on Jungian runways in hyper-colored darkness and swimming in dreamscapes encrusted with poetic texture. Indulgence is the new black (and white). Nothing so glorious as these confections of imaginative expression…"
So, yeah, pretty much amazing! Here is "My Dead Brain" by Sarah Stuve (one of the works featured as part of Our Gorgeous Nightmares) as a taste for those of us who can't be there and if you are in NYC...PLEASE go to MIX 22!
MIX 22
MIX 22
God how I wish I was in NYC this week! Why?. It's time for the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival AKA MIX NYC. The festival kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday, November 22. Tonight's program is called Opening Night: Making All Local Stops and it features a short biography of Derek Jarman, a film by Gina Carducci & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and 11 other amazing looking films and videos by filmmakers from around the world.
I would like to say that there is one standout, must-see program at this year's festival, but after looking over the schedule every night features some sort of amazingness! (Did I mention how I wished I was in NYC for this?) However, if I had to choose only one, my gut would lead me toward tomorrow night. The show is titled Our Gorgeous Nightmares and is described like this on the MIX website:
"In the shadow of Jean Cocteau, Derek Jarman, and James Bidgood, this is an ensemble of artists who are taking their inspiration from the underworlds of the psyche and transcribing it into high-art. Where some have an aversion to expressions like “avant-garde” and “haute cinema,” others see hungry image-makers whose experimentation is ripe and dripping with glamor. We present to you a banquet of fragrant imagery and flagrant catastrophe, fashioned by directors making love with designers and actors doubling as models poised on Jungian runways in hyper-colored darkness and swimming in dreamscapes encrusted with poetic texture. Indulgence is the new black (and white). Nothing so glorious as these confections of imaginative expression…"
So, yeah, pretty much amazing! Here is "My Dead Brain" by Sarah Stuve (one of the works featured as part of Our Gorgeous Nightmares) as a taste for those of us who can't be there and if you are in NYC...PLEASE go to MIX 22!
MIX 22
God how I wish I was in NYC this week! Why?. It's time for the New York Queer Experimental Film Festival AKA MIX NYC. The festival kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday, November 22. Tonight's program is called Opening Night: Making All Local Stops and it features a short biography of Derek Jarman, a film by Gina Carducci & Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, and 11 other amazing looking films and videos by filmmakers from around the world.
I would like to say that there is one standout, must-see program at this year's festival, but after looking over the schedule every night features some sort of amazingness! (Did I mention how I wished I was in NYC for this?) However, if I had to choose only one, my gut would lead me toward tomorrow night. The show is titled Our Gorgeous Nightmares and is described like this on the MIX website:
"In the shadow of Jean Cocteau, Derek Jarman, and James Bidgood, this is an ensemble of artists who are taking their inspiration from the underworlds of the psyche and transcribing it into high-art. Where some have an aversion to expressions like “avant-garde” and “haute cinema,” others see hungry image-makers whose experimentation is ripe and dripping with glamor. We present to you a banquet of fragrant imagery and flagrant catastrophe, fashioned by directors making love with designers and actors doubling as models poised on Jungian runways in hyper-colored darkness and swimming in dreamscapes encrusted with poetic texture. Indulgence is the new black (and white). Nothing so glorious as these confections of imaginative expression…"
So, yeah, pretty much amazing! Here is "My Dead Brain" by Sarah Stuve (one of the works featured as part of Our Gorgeous Nightmares) as a taste for those of us who can't be there and if you are in NYC...PLEASE go to MIX 22!
Thee Psychick Bible
An updated, limited edition and comprehensive version of Genesis P-Orridge's Thee Psychick Bible: A New Testament has been released by publisher Feral House. Originally published in the mid-90's, Thee Psychick Bible was a project from P-Orridge's post-Throbbing Gristle group Psychic TV and members of Coil and Current 93 (amongst others) under the name Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. T.O.P.Y. was formed in 1981 and is a litery/art collective that "exists to promote a system ov functional, demystified magick, utilising both pagan and modern techniques."
The updated version of Thee Psychick Bible is a 544 page volume featuring new essays and visuals and includes a DVD of rare video work from Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and Derek Jarman that had previously been seized by Scotland Yard. The book is limited to 999 signed copies and is available to order from Feral House here.
Thee Psychick Bible
An updated, limited edition and comprehensive version of Genesis P-Orridge's Thee Psychick Bible: A New Testament has been released by publisher Feral House. Originally published in the mid-90's, Thee Psychick Bible was a project from P-Orridge's post-Throbbing Gristle group Psychic TV and members of Coil and Current 93 (amongst others) under the name Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. T.O.P.Y. was formed in 1981 and is a litery/art collective that "exists to promote a system ov functional, demystified magick, utilising both pagan and modern techniques."
The updated version of Thee Psychick Bible is a 544 page volume featuring new essays and visuals and includes a DVD of rare video work from Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and Derek Jarman that had previously been seized by Scotland Yard. The book is limited to 999 signed copies and is available to order from Feral House here.
Thee Psychick Bible
An updated, limited edition and comprehensive version of Genesis P-Orridge's Thee Psychick Bible: A New Testament has been released by publisher Feral House. Originally published in the mid-90's, Thee Psychick Bible was a project from P-Orridge's post-Throbbing Gristle group Psychic TV and members of Coil and Current 93 (amongst others) under the name Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth. T.O.P.Y. was formed in 1981 and is a litery/art collective that "exists to promote a system ov functional, demystified magick, utilising both pagan and modern techniques."
The updated version of Thee Psychick Bible is a 544 page volume featuring new essays and visuals and includes a DVD of rare video work from Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson and Derek Jarman that had previously been seized by Scotland Yard. The book is limited to 999 signed copies and is available to order from Feral House here.
Weirdo Gayz
It has recently come to my attention in a comment that apparently gays love Lady Gaga and don't like asian irony. I guess I'm sorry? BUT COME ON, watching Jo Kwon is like, watching your worst enemy's dreams fall apart. I can't not watch that shit. I'd rather cut off my arm. Plus Lady Gaga is way lame and that is my opinion and it won't ever change. Anyways.
JAN TERRI IS THE ORIGINAL LADY GAGA.
Wait, actually, if Gaga makes this her point of reference for future projects, I will definately reconsider.