Cindy Sherman's soon to be famous "Untitled Film Stills," several of which were shown at Artists Space in 1978, were single-image dramas in which she transformed herself into an amazing variety of female characters, from primly dressed office worker to film-noir femme fatale.
There are sixty-nine in all, sixty-nine single-image dramas in which Sherman plays all the roles: primly dressed office worker, small-town librarian, jilted lover, bimbo, film-noir heroine, suburban high schooler, angry housewife (scowling over a broken bag of groceries).
He argued that such movies, with their emphasis not on images, drama, and representation but on "light, motion, celluloid, screen" brought the movies to the place that had been reached by painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts.
On 27 March it slipped sweetly into gear, with four opening events shifting through language, image and drama.
AUTUMN IN NEW YORK -- "Look at Me" ("Comme une Image"), a drama by the French director Agnès Jaoui, left, about relationships among a group of Parisians struggling with insecurities, will open the 42nd New York Film Festival on Oct. 1.
But lately — since the early 1990s, when jazz became fixed in the world of arts grants and cultural institutions — it has often meant something more structured, official and imposing: heady written music, presented before a theater audience, sometimes elaborated with text or image or drama, program-noted and documented and ready to be reproduced elsewhere.
In a more restricted sense, religious vestments articulate a liturgical language as part of a figurative idiom shared with other religious symbols e.g., icons (images), statues, drama, music, and ritual.
Words, visual images, speech, drama, antidotes and laughter - booming, hardy laughter at his own jokes and those of others, at the ironies and absurdities of life, were Mason's hallmarks.
Three volumes of albums titled Shakugan no Shana Assorted Shana containing image songs, audio dramas and background music tracks were released between February and April 2006.
As he had done at ABC, he was keen to shake up the staid image of BBC drama and introduce new outlets for the kitchen sink drama and the "Angry Young Men" of the era.
Perhaps Balanchine might have brought this off; but he would have done so with a piercing image of dance-drama.
