He takes discards from films tossed 16-mm documentaries, moments from various Hollywood movies, and so on and edits them together, creating a survey of his imagination while building an homage to that which he finds glamorous, mysterious, tactile: moving images.
He takes discards from films — tossed 16-mm documentaries, moments from various Hollywood movies, and so on — and edits them together, creating a survey of his imagination while building an homage to that which he finds glamorous, mysterious, tactile: moving images.
He dislikes using images of himself these days, he says, "because you can never find enough glamorous photographs of yourself.
At a party, it often happens that the person you find most glamorous is not the one you think of when it's time to go home.
And elite interlopers can find their glamorous otherness flips into a liability: successive England football coaches have been extolled as gurus, then excoriated as mercenaries.Finally, you might speculate that the discrepancy is a product of economic doldrums and disruptive globalisation.
I expected to find my glamorous mother in traction, greeting me with a big smile, a fancy silk robe, and her ever-present pearl necklace.
