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Grand Mal is a hallucinatory, discordant drama, an extravagant and sinister fable of postmodern cultural malaise. Oursler's obsessional themes and morbid visions of religion, sex and death unravel in a fragmented narrative of fear, horror, delirium — and humor. His fantastic theater of the absurd...
Robert Buck writes: "As a visual iteration of his LP, Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers, artist and musician Gryphon Rue invited artists to create a video for one of the tracks. For Grass Light on Flesh, I manipulated TV news footage of the implosion of the space age Landmark Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in November, 1995. Later, in the desert, I built a fire. Everything that rises will fall, except smoke."
In Great Mother (HARUMI), the first part of a trilogy, Idemitsu portrays fourteen-year-old Harumi's rebellion against her domineering mother. Harumi cannot escape her, even locked in her bedroom; a television monitor showing the idealized mother in a traditional Japanese kimono looms over her as...
The domestic melodrama Great Mother (SACHIKO) examines the insularity of women's roles in the Japanese family, focusing on the relationships of mother and daughter, husband and wife. Caught between her possessive mother and abusive husband, Sachiko struggles through her daily existence. Her...
The second part of a trilogy, Great Mother (YUMIKO) is a domestic melodrama that examines the cultural and familial role of Japanese women by tracing the psychology of a turbulent mother-daughter relationship. Yumiko, a rebellious young woman from an affluent family, encounters resistance from...
"A table is set with two identical red books placed at diagonal corners and a stack of three poker chips placed in the center. Two women, Tina Girouard and Susanne Harris, enter the frame. Harris is wearing a red blouse, Girouard a blue blouse with a red carnation in her buttonhole. They shake...
The final installment of the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series uses the deadpan syntax of television melodrama to tell the story of Sumie, a young Japanese woman who marries an American surfer/filmmaker for the green card that will allow her to pursue her artistic career. Falling prey to the seductive...
