Utopia’s label Circle Collective has bought Bruce Labruce’s bold and thought-provoking film “The Visitor” for North America and the U.K. Represented in international markets by Best Friend Forever, “The Visitor” world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section.
A London-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film “Teorema,” “The Visitor” stars the well-known performance artist Bishop Black as a refugee who emerges naked from a mysterious suitcase on the banks of the Thames. Entering the lives of a privileged white family, he becomes their employee and conquers each member of the family in a series of explicit encounters where taboos are shattered.
The cast is completed by Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Luca Federici, Ray Filar and Kurtis Lincoln. The film was presented as an installation by A/political, an art and activist body, during Frieze London, a contemporary art fair.
Labruce said he wanted...
A London-set reimagining of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film “Teorema,” “The Visitor” stars the well-known performance artist Bishop Black as a refugee who emerges naked from a mysterious suitcase on the banks of the Thames. Entering the lives of a privileged white family, he becomes their employee and conquers each member of the family in a series of explicit encounters where taboos are shattered.
The cast is completed by Macklin Kowal, Amy Kingsmill, Luca Federici, Ray Filar and Kurtis Lincoln. The film was presented as an installation by A/political, an art and activist body, during Frieze London, a contemporary art fair.
Labruce said he wanted...
- 3/26/2024
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Visitor’ Review: Bruce Labruce Is Back with a Spunky Call-to-Arms Loosely Inspired by ‘Teorema’
A low-budget romp set in contemporary London against a curdled cultural backdrop of racist politics, Bruce Labruce’s “The Visitor” pays explicit homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini’s sexually provocative last feature, “Teorema.” The cheeky Canadian director’s graphic reimagining sees various mysterious suitcases appearing here and there, each of which turns out to contain an identical naked man, all played by performance artist Bishop Black.
The rest of the film follows one of these guys, the “Visitor” of the film’s title, as he inveigles his way into the home of a wealthy family, proceeding to seduce each family member in turn. The production has managed to wangle an imposing location for the Visitor’s antics to unfold: one of those huge London statement homes made almost entirely of glass, like a sort of gigantic Cubist fishbowl. In other respects, the production values are somewhat DIY. This is Pasolini via early John Waters,...
The rest of the film follows one of these guys, the “Visitor” of the film’s title, as he inveigles his way into the home of a wealthy family, proceeding to seduce each family member in turn. The production has managed to wangle an imposing location for the Visitor’s antics to unfold: one of those huge London statement homes made almost entirely of glass, like a sort of gigantic Cubist fishbowl. In other respects, the production values are somewhat DIY. This is Pasolini via early John Waters,...
- 2/17/2024
- by Catherine Bray
- Variety Film + TV
Shortly after learning that three Uva students were shot and killed Sunday night with two others injured, the victim’s friends, family, and community were given some good news: the suspect, who had been on the run for 12 hours, had finally been caught. But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the unbearable pain of losing a loved one began to sink in.
The three men — Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry — were all members of the Uva football team. (The identities of the injured victims...
The three men — Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry — were all members of the Uva football team. (The identities of the injured victims...
- 11/14/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
For all those that proudly say ‘let your freak flag fly’ it might be prudent to say such a thing about Dr. John, or Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, a prominent instrumentalist from the rock and roll era that lit up the city of New Orleans in a big way during his time. As one of the most gifted musicians to ever come out of the Big Easy Dr. John it would seem that he was born to be a musician as Jack Hamilton of Slate writes. It might have seemed that his career would have been dimmed by the fact
Remembering The Musical New Orleans Legend Dr. John...
Remembering The Musical New Orleans Legend Dr. John...
- 6/10/2019
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
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