Review: The Lost Films of Charles Ludlam

Head on over to X-TRA Online to read my recent article on 'The Lost Films of Charles Ludlam', which screened in the Queer/Art/Film series at IFC in February. The article will be printed in volume 13 number 1 of the Los Angeles based contemporary art quarterly hitting stands in September.

"Mimesis is missing the point, which was pleasure, all along. Revising narrative based, normative cinema, Ludlam produced a revelatory sensation-based cinema without counterpoint in the breadth of avant-garde cinematic production."

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It’s the look you believe (in?)
And that sort of nose
Ordinariness is the hallmark of the star
But here, that’s inverted
To like fantasy, an empathic
Relatability. There’s little I feel
In common with Denise, except perhaps
The ire.