The Sleepers (1989) by Mark LaPore
Sunday, June 3, 1990, 8:00 pm
OTHER CULTURES, OTHER FORMS
New work by Gottheim, LaPore & Thornton
Tonight’s program presents works which create complex relationships about other cultures through unique formal strategies. Leslie Thorton’s (Dung Smoke Enters the Palace) (1989, 16 min.) “has teased out the regression hidden in Progress, the Fundamentalism concealed in sophisticated culture, the fear behind the desire to predict and control.” (Linda Peckham) Mark LaPore’s The Sleepers (1989, 15 min.), filmed in the Sudan, is “…neither documentary nor lyrical, neither diaristic nor didactic, but employs elements of all these discourses in order to weave a language of ambiguity and sensual specificity.” (Tom Gunning) Machete Guillette… Mama (1989, 45 min.) by Larry Gottheim, is “on the edge between strange but moving “documentary” (Haitians and life in the Dominican Republic) and something else – representation of the Self, the Other. It’s Alive.” (L.G.)