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Il mondo non è banale? ░ Il linguaggio conveniente del Sublime Prefetto

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¨ Sutta  (vedico: s ū tra; letteralmente: filo * ) del linguaggio conveniente del Sublime Prefetto ** Mia Nonna dello Zen così ha udito: una volta dimorava il Sublime Prefetto presso la Basilica di Sant’Antonio, nel codice catastale di Padua. E il Sublime così parlò: “Quattro caratteristiche, o mio bhikkh ū *** , dirigente dell’area del decreto di espulsione e dell’accoglienza e dirigente anche dell’area degli enti locali e delle cartelle esattoriali e dei fuochi d’artificio fatti come Buddho vuole ogni qualvolta che ad esempio si dica “cazzo di Buddha” o anche “alla madosca” o “gaudiosissimo pelo”, deve avere il linguaggio conveniente, non sconveniente, irreprensibile, incensurabile dagli intercettatori; quali quattro? Ecco, o mio dirigente che ha distrutto le macchie: un dirigente d’area parla proprio un linguaggio conveniente, non sconveniente, un linguaggio conforme alla Dottrina del Governo, non in contrasto con essa, un linguaggio gradevole, non sgradevole, un lin...

Frances Scholz & Mark von Schlegell ⁞ Amboy

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Frances Scholz & Mark von Schlegell at Wattis


Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell at Wattis
Artist: Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell
Venue: Wattis, San Francisco
Exhibition Title: Amboy
Date: September 10 – November 21, 2015

Note: The publication associated with the exhibition is available for download here.
Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell at Wattis
Frances Scholz, Mark von Schlegell at Wattis
Full gallery of videos, images, press release and link available after the jump.
Videos:
Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell, trailer 1 for Amboy, video, 81 mins

Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell, title song excerpt from Amboy, video, 81 mins

Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell, trailer 2 for Amboy, video, 81 mins

Images:
Images and videos courtesy of Wattis, San Francisco. Photos by Johanna Arnold. 
Press Release:
Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell premiere Amboy, a new horror film project that interlaces passages of genuine documentary (for instance with Lydia van Vogt, widow of the celebrated sci-fi writer A.E. van Vogt) with carefully scripted and acted sequences that serve the loose narrative arc of the film. The film charts the journey of an artist-filmmaker who is led astray from her attempts to make a documentary in Los Angeles by the mysterious history of a deceased male artist named Amboy. Amboy’s storyline is expressed with a disorienting array of cinematic strategies taken from feature films, documentaries, B-movies, and home-video style recordings. The conflation of these approaches takes place in an exhibition environment: one that includes photographic prints and readymade objects taken from the actual site of Amboy, a ghost town in the Mojave desert that serves as the central location of the film.
Scholz, a painter and filmmaker, edited, shot and directed the film in a number of semi-improvised sequences cowritten and coproduced with von Schlegell, art theorist and science fiction author, encorporating an expansive cast of actors and collaborators from the worlds of art, film,music, and literature. Scholz and von Schlegell invited a number of musicians –including Stephen Malkmus, Holy Shit, and Kath Bloom– to provide Amboy’ssoundtrack,which at times is performed in-camera, in proximity to the film’s narrative action. Actors in Amboy include Paul Giamatti, Eleanor Antin, Penny Arcade, Chris Kraus,Andrea Fraser, Colm Tóibín, Leslie Allison and Lily Benson.