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Friday, July 8, 8 PM
Truth Wrapped in Trash and Vice Versa
George Kuchar at Sixty-Two
In the 1980s, underground film pioneer George picked up a video camera, the lowest and most despised medium, to record his daily life as if it was worthy of a larger-than-life Hollywood movie. George releases many, many hours of new tape each year and while some diehard Kucharians greedily consume with a grin every video that the corpulent Kuchar squeezes out, others consider his work from the late eighties and early nineties to be his creative peak as simultaneous sad-sack, comic performer, ironic yet empathetic observer, in-camera editor, cat-lover (RIP Blackie), enthusiast of the supernatural and carnivorous gourmand. News of a second wind – a Kuchar renaissance – cut sharply through the air in the past three years and provoked Pleasure Dome, A.K.A. the Centre for Canadian Kuchar Worship, to showcase some of George’s 21st-century work. These recent tapes are suffused with even more tragedy and melancholic self-regard as George enters his sixties, his liverspots proliferate, his hair thins out, and his belly continues its journey outward. George occasionally looks utterly defeated, but still somehow manages to hold on and crack wise. See George’s dinners with his artist friends and students! See George re-visit El Reno, Oklahoma where he chased tornadoes in The Weather Diaries! See his new cats Tippy and Lily! See his mother still going strong! As a special added bonus, see the elegiac classical-era Kuchar masterpiece Creeping Crimson (1987)! Hail to the Kuch!
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Pleasure Dome is a year-round film and video exhibition group dedicated to the presentation of experimental film and video. The 2005/2006 Programming Collective is: Scott Berry, Daniel Cockburn, Jon Davies, Claire Eckert, Firoza Elavia, Linda Feesey, Graham Hollings, Jean-Paul Kelly, Chris Kennedy, Jacob Korczynski, Ben Portis and Michèle Stanley. Tom Taylor is the Program Coordinator. Pleasure Dome acknowledges the support of our members, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.
Pleasure Dome does not submit any of its film and video
programming for prior approval by any censoring bodies.
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