Blending contemporary interviews with unexpectedly riveting archive footage, Garbus takes the viewer into the labyrinth of the grandmaster's mind, finding disquieting connections between his championship performances and subsequent mental decline.
With the new tests have come reams of data about individual school performance, and the disquieting discovery that the achievement gap between white and minority pupils, while narrowed from several decades ago, has begun to widen again.
The boundary-breaking project Collapsing Scenery kicked off their February residency, "Rebuilding Babylon," last Wednesday with psychedelic immersive art installations, a noisy live musical performance, and a disquieting reading by Genesis Breyer P-OrridGenesis Breyer
But the reason that her story is so fascinating to me and to the rest of the world is that it exposes in a disquieting way that our race is performance – that, despite the stark differences in how our races are perceived and privileged (or not) by others, they are all predicated on a myth that the differences are intrinsic and intrinsically perceptible.
The performance was full of tension and disquieting ambiguities.
It is a measure of how entrenched the National Front has become that its 15% first-round score, a robust performance for any third force and disquieting for an unapologetically anti-immigrant party, was met with relief.
In one of the most disquieting yet powerful works, Return (2008), by Miami-based performance artist María José Arjona, the spectator steps though bloody puddles made by red ink, splattered at eye level around the walls of a ward, without knowing how the blood-like stains were formed.
In Michael Haneke's powerfully disquieting film, Isabelle Huppert gives one of her best performances as Erika Kohut, an imperious music teacher at a Vienna conservatory.
Probably the most striking quality of Mr. Ohlsson's performance was his uncanny way of finding a disquieting electricity not only in big extroverted works like the Sonatas Nos. 5 and 10, both tidal waves in Mr. Ohlsson's hands, but also in more ethereal scores like the meditative "Désir" (Op. 57, No. 1) and the almost Debussian "Vers la Flamme" (Op. 72).
More provocative is The Wall (New Wave, 12), a disquieting survival allegory from Austria, lent punch by Martina Gedeck's tremendous performance as an Alpine holidaymaker mysteriously quarantined from the outside world.
