Bruce LaBruce

Written by Marica on August 6, 2007. Posted in video

Otto; or, Up with dead people is the last upcoming movie by Bruce LaBruce

“… is a melancholy zombie movie with political overtones that seeks to extend and elaborate the emerging zombie mythology.
A modern fable about the loneliness, emptiness, and alienation…” (more)

(thanx IcDEADpeople!)

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Laurie Lipton

Written by Marica on August 4, 2007. Posted in art

Laurie Lipton‘s drawings…

Love Bite, 2002

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Sigalit Landau

Written by Marica on August 1, 2007. Posted in art

Israeli artist Sigalit Landau...

Barbed Hula, 2000 (video here)

“…with Sigalit Landau, the pathos inherent in the forms of her elders is here held back by the subversive linking of two antagonistic themes: the profane, rock’n’roll dancing; and the sacred, the icon of sacrifice. Rock my religion. Twist again in Jerusalem…

…Sigalit Landau enjoys mixing the painful and the sublime, the graceful and the sordid, naturalism and modernist chaos.”

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Isabel Samaras

Written by Marica on July 31, 2007. Posted in art

“My generation is not as familiar with Bible stories or ancient mythology but they all watched TV. So I can paint these modern characters and make a reference to historical painting, I can make a reference to a TV show and people either get it or they don’t get it…”

Isabel Samaras‘ paintings…