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Mere Tongue to Take Back a Name

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Tanya Tagaq’s “Tongues”

 
out now on Six Shooter Records

“My Boy, My Horse, My Dog,” Featuring Saadet Türköz

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Pipilotti Rist’s wonderful exhibition, Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor, is currently on view at The Geffen Contemporary, DTLA, and is a must see! Below is one of the many Rist videos on display in varying contexts. “My Boy, My Horse, My Dog” is in gallery-space ‘Das Zimmer (The Room),’ and viewed on the old television sitting floorside. The MOCA exhibition is on through 6 June, 2022.

“My Boy, My Horse, My Dog,” vocals by Saadet Türköz
Music by Anders Guggisberg and Pipilotti Rist
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The Desert Stranglers Take It To The Throat

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“The Captain’s Tale”
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Recorded on a debauched, drug-addled evening where the Desert Stranglers laid down a dozen or so tracks — all improvised on-spot, all one takes, a single mic — in the remote highlands above Pioneertown, CA. This is the resultant carnage:
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The Desert Stranglers are:

Ben Moore | @harvest_recordings
Steve Seleska | @steveseleskaart
Reid Wilkie | @reidwilkie
C von Hassett | @riotmaterial
Produced by Harvest Recordings

The Staccato Cat: New Work from Jeff Parker

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“Suffolk”

From the Forfolks release
on Anthem / Nonesuch Records
video shot at Noah Purifoy’s Desert Museum in Joshua Tree

Dune

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CINEMA DISORDINAIRE

By Manohla Dargis

In a galaxy far, far away, a young man in a sea of sand faces a foreboding destiny. The threat of war hangs in the air. At the brink of a crisis, he navigates a feudalistic world with an evil emperor, noble houses and subjugated peoples, a tale right out of mythology and right at home in George Lucas’s brainpan. But this is Dune (2021), baby, Frank Herbert’s science-fiction opus, which is making another run at global box-office domination even as it heads toward controversy about what it and its messianic protagonist signify. [Read more…]

Titane

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CINEMA DISORDINAIRE

Reviewed by A.O. Scott

Alexia is a strip-club dancer in the South of France whose hobby — her compulsion, her kink, her vocation — is murder. As the bodies pile up and the law seems to be closing in, she leaves the house where she lives with her parents and takes on the identity of Adrien Legrand, a boy who went missing many years before.

Having seen a computer-generated image of the teenager Adrien might have grown up to be, Alexia fashions herself into a plausible likeness, cutting her hair short, binding her breasts and smashing her nose against a bathroom sink. The disguise works well enough to convince the boy’s dad, Vincent, the ultra-manly commander of a fire-and-rescue squad. But there is a complication: Alexia is pregnant. The father, as far as we can tell, is a Cadillac with hydraulic suspension and a custom paint job. As the pregnancy progresses, Alexia starts to lactate petroleum. [Read more…]

The Innocents

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CINEMA DISORDINAIRE

Reviewed by Jeannette Catsoulis

The Innocents (2021) may share a title — and even some thematic fragments — with Jack Clayton’s 1961 ghost story, but its vibe is ultimately more superheroic than spectral. There’s no hint of either characteristic, though, in the movie’s gorgeous opening shot of an angelically sleeping child, the brush of eyelashes on freckled skin glowing in summer sunlight. The child is 9-year-old Ida (Rakel Lenora Flottum), and when she wakes and carefully pinches the thigh of her autistic, nonverbal sister, Anna (played by the neurotypical actor Alva Brynsmo Ramstad), we know Ida is no angel. [Read more…]