We bring this week to a close by highlighting a pair of new recordings of Richard Foreman, noted avant-garde playwright and founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
First, we have an excerpt from Foreman's 2013 film, Once Every Day, which is accompanied by a link to rent the complete film from Vimeo on Demand. Observing that "the goal, for Foreman, is not to induce pleasure, but rather to demand acute — even obsessive — attention in his viewers," Film Comment's Emma Meyers notes, "the film is most striking for the emptiness of its signs. A woman's feet, clad in high heels and bound together with rope, or the stern face of an old man, do not necessarily signify anything outside of themselves." She concludes, "the effect falls anywhere between refreshingly liberating, mildly amusing, and stalwartly infuriating."
Second, we have candid video and audio footage of Foreman discussing the pioneering queer filmmaker Jack Smith, recorded at New York City's Metrograph on September 10th of this year. You'll find both of these artifacts on PennSound's Richard Foreman author page, amidst a remarkable treasure trove of work from the 1970s up to the present. Click here to start browsing.
