The shoot involved costumed free divers in a spooky fantasy world of caverns and shadowy animal cut outs, thanks to the deep pools of water that refract sunlight through looming jungle and a rare blend of warm and cold water.
Charlotte Carter's is that shadowy ground where actions are driven by fantasies.
Expressionist films such as Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920; The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), Der Golem (1920), Nosferatu (1922), and Metropolis (1927) created a world of fantasy and horror peopled with menacing, shadowy figures.
Shellac goes around the corner that separates acceptable fantasies -- the romantic stuff of digestible pop -- from the shadowy realm of the forbidden.
An abrasive matron from Milwaukee and her bibulous, bald-headed husband pay a call, are treated to a lengthy fantasy about romance, heroism, death and ancient Greece (complete with pillars and columns that metamorphosize from the shadowy recesses of the living room).
"Part of the thrill and comedy of setting a destructive scene in the Guggenheim, where shadowy video installations stand in for a kind of ivory tower of contemporary culture, comes from a deep-seated fantasy to blow this all up.
"Part of the thrill and comedy of setting a destructive scene in the Guggenheim, where weak shadowy video installations stand in for a kind of ivory tower of contemporary culture, comes from a deep-seated fantasy to blow this all up.
Tomorrow at 7 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. Rosane Chamecki and Andrea Lerner, known for their raw movement and fantasy, will present their new "Visible Content," a work about a woman struggling to confront the phantoms of her shadowy inner life.
