Cinematic Folds
BY Jason Anderson
October 29, 2008 11:10
No anthology about experimental film can be complete without references to Gilles Deleuze, a close reading of Warhol’s Chelsea Girls and photos of gay zombies. Local fringe-film collective Pleasure Dome comes through in spades with a new compilation on its own imprint. Edited by Firoza Elavia, Cinematic Folds: the furling and unfurling of images tackles matters of “world, image and mind” by extending notions of the cinematic beyond the contents of the screen to include the contents of your skull. Contributors include Bruce LaBruce (who supplies suitably creepy production stills from his zombie opus Otto: Or, Up With Dead People), George Toles (with a marvelous appreciation of Martin Arnold’s Alone Life Wastes Andy Hardy) and Jack Sargeant (on After Cease to Exist, a demi-legendary 1977 doc from the Throbbing Gristle camp). Pleasure Dome’s “A Lower World” program continues this weekend with a book launch event on Saturday (Nov. 1), 3-6pm at the Pixel Gallery (156 Augusta). Cinematic Folds contributor Erin Manning also delivers a talk on the sculptural and film work of Jim Campbell. Gay zombies may or may not also be in attendance.
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