Margo Victor "The Rotten Riotous West"
Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
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Margo Victor’s film "The Rotten Riotous West," starring supermodel motorcycle mechanic Jenny Schimizu, is an experimental film which celebrates the alternative, with regard to the position of power that women must create within our society, via the lexicon of the Western film genre. Historically the Western has been a favorite playground of filmmakers to explore issues of the marginalized vs. the accepted, the powerful vs. the disenfranchised, women vs. men, white vs. brown, etc. Victor’s minimal, formal approach to the medium from a contemporary artist’s point of view liberates the genre of dialogue and replaces it with pre-recorded library sounds, painstakingly cut and pasted into place for just the right level of hyper-reality tempered by Spaghetti western-esque incongruence. With the focus dedicated to one actor, Victor disperses with the narrative task of resolving conflict between characters and elevates the scenario to an articulation of the conflict of the existence of alternative subjectivities within a traditional world.
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Schedule
from July 22, 2009 to September 12, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-07-22 from 17:00 to 20:00