Dennis Cooper-esque in style, TEX is a rowdy non-narrative that documents Beau Rice's sexual exploits and obsession with a former fling. In the 21st century, relationships have been transformed in unprecedented ways. Technology has birthed a paradoxical space between isolation and connectivity profoundly expanding the possibilities for how and with whom we create intimacy. An experiment between the epistolary and the ectype, TEX is a performance act in print.
No technique of cinema is as royal and as risky as the Long Take-audacious in its promise of unified time and space, terrifying in what that might imply. Inspired by the films of Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr, famous for his long take, and the novels and screenplays of Tarr's great collaborator Lszl Krasznahorkai, Janice Lee's Damnation is both an ekphrasis and confession, an obsessive response, a poetic meditation and mirror on time; time that ruthlessly pulls forward with our endurance; time unleashed from chronology and prediction; time that exists in relentless static.
A remodelling of the classically charming and na ve sixth century Christian tale, The Voyage of Saint Brendan. The nation is in the iron claw of capitalism, Christianity's basic principles are flouted daily, the South has won the Civil War, slavery is widespread, exploitation rampant and God - now working as a janitor at Tastee Freez with late-onset Alzheimer's - is rapidly losing the plot. In an effort to obliterate his botched creation from memory, the fallen divinity recruits retail worker Brad Power to enlist a crew of 12 for a seafaring adventure.
