This past May, after he performed his first solo single “Creep City” on The Graham Norton Show, Scissor Sisters singer Jake Shears received some unsolicited feedback on Twitter.
“Some bitchy queen was like, [in a British accent] ‘This sounds like every other Scissor Sisters song ever written,’ and I just wanted to say, ‘Yeah, because I wrote them!'” he tells Rolling Stone, while seated in the kitchen of a friend’s Upper East Side NYC townhouse. “That’s my sound, you know, and I want to keep making that sound as long as...
“Some bitchy queen was like, [in a British accent] ‘This sounds like every other Scissor Sisters song ever written,’ and I just wanted to say, ‘Yeah, because I wrote them!'” he tells Rolling Stone, while seated in the kitchen of a friend’s Upper East Side NYC townhouse. “That’s my sound, you know, and I want to keep making that sound as long as...
- 7/13/2018
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
Basma Alsharif has garnered attention worldwide for her installations and shorts over the last few years. Her work invites the viewer to re-think the depiction of language, time and space, and to re-experience the understanding of creating images and telling stories.I interviewed the filmmaker about her feature debut Ouroboros, which will have its world premiere as part of the Signs of Life competition at the 70th Locarno Film Festival.Notebook: Could you comment on the process of creating this film as a mirror to your own experience and also as a bridge to your filmmaking ideas? Basma Alsharif: As a Palestinian in the Diaspora, I have watched and experienced the perpetual destruction of the Gaza Strip throughout the course of my life—as it has throughout my parents' lives and my grandparents' lives. With the privilege of distance coupled with the privilege of having access to visiting throughout my childhood into adulthood,...
- 8/9/2017
- MUBI
Dani Leventhal's PlatonicThis review, I think, might best be understood as an example of “slow criticism.” This is a term coined by Filmkrant editor Dana Linssen to describe “wayward articles,” ones that have a personal or political element that is somehow not timely. We can imagine that the reverse of this is “fast criticism,” the up-to-the-minute report from a film festival, the 140-character response tweeted out the minute the first press screening is over. These thoughts are not timely. The Whitney Biennial closed on June 11th, and the film program screened its final program on May 21st. So although I expect many of these films to have a life long after their appearance at the Whitney, I am not providing any kind of late-breaking news flash from the film or art world by writing about these works in this forum.But in a way, that is the point. Even...
- 8/1/2017
- MUBI
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