Party Monster
Raw Images from the Optic Cross
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Party Monster
Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
US, 1998, 16mm, color, 60 min.
When Warhol died, a snotty, charismatic Velvet Goldmine type (once from Indiana) took over the downtown New York party scene, and made it wilder, sexier, more decadent, and definitely more dangerous, with cocaine and heroin everywhere. This is the mind-boggling, true-life story of Michael Alig, leader of the "Club Kids" scene, who ended up in jail for murdering his drug dealer, putting the body in a suitcase, and sailing it out to sea. An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.
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Raw Images from the Optic Cross
Directed by Karl Nussbaum.
US, 1998, video, color, 25 min.
An almost Space Odyssey-like trip inside the head of the filmmaker, the bitter son of a Holocaust survivor, a vivid, eerie, Caballic journey of horrifying, volcanic, freak-show imagery, and with a magnificent score by Joe Arcidiacono, melting European carnival music, shrieks of musical horror, and one piece described as "Neil Young Playing a Bar Mitzvah."
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Screenings from this program
Lena's Dreams
Bury Me in Kern County
Bury Me in Kern County
Bury Me in Kern County
Bury Me in Kern County
