Anthology Film Archives, May 23 & 24, 7:30p, 75 minutes, $14
Program of shorts by Ross McLaren with in-person comments by James N. Kienitz Wilkins and professor Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock (Fordham University)
A note about Ross vis-à-vis Peter Greenaway for Metrograph Journal:
“I listen to this soundtrack all the time, much to my mom’s discomfort as a trained organist who finds Michael Nyman’s electric bass, punchy saxophones, and modded-out harpsichord to land well beyond the tolerably baroque in the realm of the profane. But isn’t that the point? It’s so good because it’s so unapologetically ecstatically annoying, much like the movie itself, with a slick Anthony Higgins peacocking about some English estate, spreading irritation as his personal lubricant and looking strikingly like a young Ross McLaren, the Canadian experimental filmmaker who died last November and was a friend, former professor, and occasional actor for me—the artist unleashed who understands that no rule is indelible; that a contract is not a contract without negotiation.”
- James N. Kienitz Wilkins
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