MARVELOUS MOVIE MONDAYS!! guest curator: Caitlin Horsmon The third installment looking at our relationship(s) to ‘Our Animal Brethren’ is comprised of two pieces from Kathy High’s year-long investigation into her own fears about dying at 45 in the year 2000, “Everyday Problems of the Living”. For the series High made a video every month for a year exploring her own fears about death by projecting her anxieties onto her cats and dog. In “Death Poses” and “Dried Up” High ‘performs her death’ for her pets, who turn out to be a comically unsympathetic audience and stymie her attempts to ‘die’. Playful consideration of the conventions of the hollywood death is intermingled with an examination of artifice in human behavior through the ‘natural’ behavior of the non-human animals. (This video was concealed for superstitious reasons for a waiting period of five years. It was finally released in 2005.) https://vimeo/50479209
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 22:36:55 +0000
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