Chrissie Iles.1 "DESTRICTED" For this series of short films, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Mike Figgis, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Gaspar Noe have--or soon will have--created (at the behest of Neville Wakefield, Mel Agace, and Andrew Hale) some of the sexiest moments in recent cinema, Strictly for adults. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2 AUA AUA American Urological Association, see there AUA (DOROTHY IANNONE) Living in Germany since the late '60s, expatriate Dorothy lannone has created a voluptuous, libertarian, and unashamedly un·a·shamed adj. Feeling or showing no remorse, shame, or embarrassment: un  a·sham erotic body of work. A film (from 1972) framed within a large, hand-painted box sculpture, Aua Aua celebrates life with her lover Dieter Roth. 3 FALLEN (FRED KELEMEN) Kelemen's searing sear 1 v. seared, sear·ing, sears v.tr. 1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of with or as if with a hot instrument. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. camera follows the existential crisis of a man tortured by his failure to stop a woman jumping from a bridge and his journey through the city of Riga, retracing her life. 4 STORIES ARE PROPAGANDA (PHILIPPE PARRENO AND RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA) An anxious poem of what-ifs and do-you-remember-whens, this love letter to the recent past describes our world as it rapidly recedes into a fading collective memory. 5 DREAMING OF THE DREAM OF THE DREAM (JORDAN WOLFSON) Wolfson's silent collage of water sequences from classic cartoons exists in one print only. When the print wears out, the film ceases to exist. 6 PEDESTRIAN CINEMA (BERNADETTE CORPORATION) In this yearlong project in Berlin, Bernadette Corporation questions the role of cinema, articulating it as an ongoing action incorporating projection, screen, wall, objects, street, and time. 7 GUARDS (FRANCIS ALYS) As part of his Artangel project "7 Walks," Alys's film tracks sixty-four Coldstream Guards walking through the Square Mile of London. 8 BURN (OR, THE 2ND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS law of thermodynamics See under thermodynamics. Noun 1. law of thermodynamics - (physics) a law governing the relations between states of energy in a closed system ) (BRADLEY EROS Eros, in Greek religion and mythology Eros (ēr`ŏs, ĕr`–), in Greek religion and mythology, god of love. He was the personification of love in all its manifestations, including physical passion at its strongest, tender, ) A vertical section of found footage of a stripper melts as Eros burns the film before our eyes, to the sound of Scorsese taxi driver Travis Bickle describing the "filthy mass" of pimps, prostitutes, and hoodlums who pour into New York's streets at night. 9 WINTER SOLDIER (WINTERFILM COLLECTIVE) Veterans recount their experiences in Vietnam in this searing 1972 film rereleased this year. 10 EXCAVATING TAYLOR MEAD (WILLIAM KIRKLEY) A documentary portrait of the life of Warhol film star, poet extraordinaire ex·tra·or·di·naire adj. Extraordinary: a jazz singer extraordinaire. [French, from Old French, from Latin extra , and national treasure Taylor Mead. THE ANNE AND JOEL EHRENKRANZ CURATOR OF CONTEMPORARY ART AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). , NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , CHRISSIE ILES IS CO-ORGANIZING THE MUSEUM'S 2006 BIENNIAL. |
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