At night, he made sculptures — visually disorienting constructions using sheets of glass; minimalist wooden boxes with non-minimalist performance elements, such as his own arm emerging from a hole in the top, waving a red flag.
At night, he made sculptures visually disorienting constructions using sheets of glass; minimalist wooden boxes with non-minimalist performance elements, such as his own arm emerging from a hole in the top, waving a red flag.
Relentless tracking shots and dumbwaiters used to disorienting effect move us up, down and through the building, along endless hallways, into officelike interrogation chambers (note the padded doors), past revolving file boxes once filled with dossiers.
However, he had a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 13 initially because he was disoriented and using inappropriate words.
The experience of "going on" "Fresh Air" is positively disorienting for people used to confronting their interviewers.
Of course, he also folded in some of the Talking Heads' most ebullient songs: "Slippery People," "Once in a Lifetime" and "Burning Down the House" among them, some employing the signature disorienting lighting effects used on the Stop Making Sense tour and film, to the delight of the sold-out crowd.
The setting was disorienting, as was the use of machines — a favorite Dorsen move — to mediate human speech.
Using spatially disorienting compositions and a nonstop score by Victor Young, Stevens sustains the dreamlike quality of the opening sequence through this story of a recovering alcoholic (Ray Milland, recapitulating his Oscar-winning role in "The Lost Weekend") who tries to help a rising actress with a drinking problem (Joan Fontaine).
To prepare during rehearsals, Wisher acted in a wheelchair with a paper bag over his head that only had slits cut out for his eyes so he would be used to the "disorienting" situation and be able to express himself without using his whole face.
He wrote several of the songs on Cream's massive 1968 album, Wheels of Fire, became disoriented through drug use, and committed suicide in 1969.
