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CHARLES ATLAS: SCREENING AND ARTIST TALK

EAI
535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York City
Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 6:30 pm

Works

Hail the New Puritan
Charles Atlas 
1985-86, 84:47 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video

Hail the New Puritan is a simulated day-in-the-life "docufantasy" starring the British dance celebrity Michael Clark. Atlas' fictive portrait of the charismatic choreographer serves as a vivid invocation of the studied decadence of the 1980s post-punk London subculture.