Microcinema International has announced its catalog of releases for 2010, which will offer not one, not two, but THREE ways to get your paws on a piece of Lynn’s cinematic oeuvre!
Lynn Hershman Leeson in stills from Binge (l), and First Person Plural (r), both from The Electronic Diaries Series
As you might recall from a previous livingblog post, Lynn was featured in this year’s futurist-inspired Performa biennial of new and time-based media. Her piece Customized Marinetti (2009), which features en-masse, in-place jogging, moaning, and matching t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase IO NON SONO MARINETTI (I am not Marinetti), among other things, was commissioned specifically for the festival as part of Futurist Life Redux. According to the Performa website,
Inspired by the lost Futurist film Vita Futurista (Futurist Life, 1916), Futurist Life Redux is a new film featuring contributions by an incredible group of contemporary film and video artists—Trisha Baga, chameckilerner, Martha Colburn, Ben Coonley, George Kuchar, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Shana Moulton, Shannon Plumb, Aida Ruilova, Matthew Silver and Shoval Zohar (The Future), and Michael Smith—re-imagining the eleven segments of the original Futurist Life for the twenty-first century.
Gene Ware (L) and Tilda Swinton (R) in stills from "Curing the Vampire"
An insatiable thirst has drained global resources. Gluttony has taken its toll on the world. Vampiristic irresponsibility is on the rise.
So begins Lynn’s introduction to a series of webisodes, commissioned by the Tate Modern, entitled Curing the Vampire. Although they were produced in early 2008, in this media moment saturated with bloodsucker frenzy from Twilight to True Blood, with echoes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer still reverberating through popular culture, Curing the Vampire deserves to be resurrected (so to speak) as a call to arms for the revitalization of the world’s intellectual and creative resources.