June 7, and last week was a tough one: another bout of gout, though relatively mild. But i went to several press screenings, and i'm trying to get back to seeing movies. Last week: Tuesday (May 29), Maurice Pialat's "We Won't Grow Old Together", which is finally getting a week's run at BAM Cinemathek; Wednesday (May 30), Matthew Aker's "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present", which will be playing at Film Forum before its television premiere on HBO; since then, i saw ten films as part of the BAM CinemaFest. Friday (June 1): "Sleepwalk With Me"; "Welcome to Pine Hill"; Monday (June 4): "Radio Unnameable"; "Tchoupitoulas"; "The Comedy"; Tuesday (June 5): "Francine"; "The Impostor"; "Pavilion"; Wednesday (June 6): "Walk Away Renee"; "Compliance"; "Nobody Walks". I also went to Liz Phillips and Mariko Endo Reynolds's performance "Biyuu" at Roulette on Saturday, June 2; and we attended an event centering on the Audrey Flack retrospective exhibition at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery on Sunday, June 3. That's a lot to take in, and right now i've watched two documentaries on Showtime: "No Look Pass" about the Burmese-American woman basketball player Emily Tay, and "Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston". I'll be writing more on all of these. I must admit that i found "Marina Abramovic" to be highly informative, especially since i was in Germany all the time when the exhibition "The Artist Is Present" was at the Museum of Modern Art. Of course, the most exciting phenomenon of the season so far has been Lena Dunham's TV series on HBO, "Girls", and so it was fitting that the last film shown as part of the BAM CinemaFest press screenings would be Ry Russo-Young's "Nobody Walks" with its script by Dunham and Russo-Young.
Thursday, June 07, 2012
About Me
- Name: Daryl Chin
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Daryl Chin is a multimedia artist, critic and curator. He was Associate Editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art from 1989 to 2005. He co-founded the Asian-American International Film Festival, was on the Board of Directors of NewFest (The New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) and Apparatus Productions. With Larry Qualls, he created over 30 theater/performance pieces from 1975 to 1985.
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