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USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…Dates: October 21, 2013 to October 21, 2013
Location: Gladstone Hotel, Art Bar
A FUNDRAISER FOR THE 2014 8 fest small gauge film festival “Roses are Red, Blood is Black….”A.” is a relentlessly rancid alcoholic and drug-induced journey through which Edie, a washed-up and broken movie starlet finds herself alone and ugly with only glittering memories of her silver past.” – Luther Price Early Monthly Segments is thrilled to present a very rare screening of the Super 8mm feature film “A.” by Boston-based artist Luther Price. “Edie, the faded starlet of “A.” is not so much a literal figuration of a woman, but a nightmare memory come to life. Nothing in Price’s cinema is quite what it appears to be. Daytime broadcasts implode into personal confessions. Edie is not Price-in-drag, but Price living within the ethos of the woman’s pictures that his mother obsessively tuned into when Price was growing up. Audio recordings Price made with his sister Sally, re-enacting the films Streetcar Named Desire and Imitation of Life invade the film. The memories engendered on these lazy afternoon are poured into Edie’s unsteady form. “A.” took years to film and the interior locales stretch out over 3 or 4 of Price’s apartments….it was a turbulent period of production in which Price became severly depressed and suffered a near-fatal accident while filming the suicide sequence. It strikes me as one of Price’s most outwardly reflexive and self-conscious films (though post-modern seems like such a moot term in the otherworldly cosmology of Luther Price), with hoodwinks, references to other avant-garde films like Fireworks and explicit recreations of the woman’s pictures of Price’s youth…. “A.” marks Price’s last performative films as he now works exclusively with found footage.” -Bradford Nordeen, program notes, Dirty Looks NYC Programme: A. by Luther Price, 1994, USA, Super 8mm, 60 minutes, B&W/colour, sound on cassette $5-10 suggested donation THANKS: Canyon Cinema, Gladstone Hotel, Bradford Nordeen
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