The very exhausted Vagimule doll is back from her whirlic New York City
misadventure. I had a divine time but it
was a lot of work and I was jetlagged throughout as I never was able to
acclimate to the time zone as this trip to Man!hattan was very short. Before telling you what happened let me do
some catchup by reprinting my introduction text from Rising Stars, Falling
Stars from Wednesday January 22nd as I received several requests to
read it. Here it is in its intirety
followed by the regular list of VIP’s in attendance.
I’m going to reveal a sacred secret that very few people are aware of
if at all,but the legendary Austrian Hollywood filmmaker Otto Preminger was a
secret admirer of the Arsenal. Yes its
true and as such he would sneak into the vaults at the old location in
Schoeneberg and hide 16 mm prints of his films and other cinema treasures. Why 16mm you ask? Well it was too heavy to carry cans of 35mm
prints. That is one of the reasons why
The Arsenal has a copy of Preminger’s 1959 musical Porgy & Bess and his
spirit of 68 youth in revolt/caper/comedy with the strange name of Skidoo. This film features strange performances from
Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing,Mickey Rooney, Frankie Avalon trying to do outdo
his fellow Beach Party co-star Annette Funicello who starred the same year in
the Bob Rafelson film Head with the pop group The Monkey’s. Skidoo also stars Groucho
Marx as God and the first black supermodel/Warhol superstar Donyale Luna who
was also the lead in Carmelo Bene’s Salome
and featured in Fellini’s Satyricon as the Witch. Here in Skidoo Luna is none other then God’s
Girlfriend. Well did you think that God
would be single?
Omnipotent power is its own aphrodisiac.I was going to give every
member of the audience some LSD and crystal meth to enhance your viewing of
this film, but instead we have some colored gels taped to the back of your seat
that we encourage you to watch the film through. Herr Preminger knew that the 16mm color on
this Cinemascope print would fade so he provided a solution by providing these
formidable cystic gels. This is going to be an interactive experience so get to
know your neighbour exchange gels, fornicate and talk back to the screen. This print is deteriating so this may be the
last chance you get to see this film EVER so make the most of it. Let yourself go.
After the screening please stay for our mind altering Babbit/Bromide
wine reception. Danke sehr.
The Whose Who at Rising Stars,Falling Stars-We Must Have Music-Manuel
Schubert, of FilmHighlights Magazine and taz-die tageszeitung, Olivier Nowitzki
with his hot new date Gunnar Neumann, Zazie De Paris the star of Tatzort TV
show, DJane Bianca Kruk, prima ballerina Trixie Schonherr with Dr. Tonya ,Travis Jeppesen with Baby
Brian Tennesse Claflin of Pork at Ficken 3000, Travis game me a copy of his new
book Suiciders on SemioText(e) imprint.
Travis is doing two projects for the Whitney Biennial, one is a
collaboration with Bjarne Melgaard who is making a room installation based on
Travis’s novel The Suiciders. On May 9th
he will do an all day reading of the novel in the installation. It takes 8 hours. The second project is called 16 Sculptures
where he will be re-creating in the medium of language 16 sculptures by
different artists throughout the history of art from the Venus of Willendorf up
to Isa Genzken. This will take the form
of a book with texts, but also a sound installation with the aid of headphones,
and a sleeping mask device you can hear Travis reading each text with his voice
manipulated according to the physical properties of the sculpture. There will only be 5 of the 16 in the Whitney
Biennial with the full 16 shown in a solo exhibition this summer at the
Wilkinson Gallery in London. Prolific
Mr. Jepperson is also teaching at the Royal College of Art. At RSFS I was able to flirt with the
incredibly beautiful and manlische Max
Jorge Hinderer Cruz the Bolivian/Deutsch scholar and theorist whose posse
included the major ms. Gorgeous Natasha Mendonca the celebrated Indian
filmmaker and Fabiana Faleiros the sweet feline performance artist who wowed
the audiences at Camp/Anti-Camp-The Queer Guide to Everyday Life back in 2012
at HAU 2, Noam Gorbat, filmmaker, artist with Forum Expanded, Julian Radlmaier
who has a film at the Rotterdam film festival in The with the very pretty Deutsch/Korean film
historian Sulgi Li who has the shiniest hair in Germany and teaches at the
Friei Universitaet. British/South African Architect Emma Williams who
specializes in creating collective housing, Nanna Heidenreich, Uli Ziemons, and
Empress Stefanie Schulte Strathaus in Berlinale overdrive,my partner in grime
Daniel Hendrickson the Scandinavian Muslim and patrician Chilean filmdirector
Sebastian LeLio.