Dreamful Slumbers – 10
http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=4744
THE SKY SONG
Video by James Fotopoulus
MONDAY FEBRUARY 6, 7PM
Admission $6 – Artist in Person
On the final night of the current exhibition Dreamful Slumbers: drawings and videos, James Fotopoulos will present his 2007 video “The Sky Song”, a Western-style feature about revenge. In this work, Fotopoulos incorporates special effects, costumes, charcoal and primitive computer drawings with actors’ performances. The “Sky Song” lays the foundation for further incorporation of hand drawn images in his later films.
“The Sky Song, like other Fotopoulos films and videos, is something I won’t soon forget. In short, it makes Inland Empire look like Apollo 13…notable largely for image-manipulated actors performing wooden script readings of a disturbed Western punctuated by psychosexual bloodlettings, primitive 3-D computer graphics of naked bodies and childlike drawings, and a series of flashed icons ranging from barnyard animals to an array of fruit. The word ‘nightmare’ could describe The Sky Song, but not easily: it’s an indescribable experience…” — Indiewire
The Sky Song
2007, Video, color, sound stereo, 127 min
In the old West, a man’s family is slain by his doppelganger: Mr. Lamb. The man’s quest for revenge takes him on a journey to reconcile the horrors of his past – illness, murder, lost love and war. The story’s action is told through stilted theatrical black box performances, crude CGI special effects, Halloween costumes and primitive drawings of animals, plants, sex, baseball, and sea life.
February 6th, 2012