![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. It is a wickedly funny, sexy, and gorgeous film about how insane we can all be. This film isn’t some droning, boring thesis about how sad the human condition is. You are seduced into bed with the subject matter. ![]() I think that is important in performance. There is a sense of delight as cruelty unfolds. It is also a wildly pleasurable and humorous film. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (and actually most of Fassbinder’s work) inhabits and comments on these darker natures with razor precision. I make work about the more indigestible themes of the human psyche: obsession, power struggles, psychosexual battles. I don’t make work about hope or how wonderful life is. She desires total control over her life and other people. She tells stories, she flirts, she screams, she apologizes, she smashes things and herself. Inside Petra’s atelier, the psychology of its protagonist unfolds. Therefore it, unlike what films often do and part of what quickly made them outstride live theatre, keeps it’s action to one location. It is the film adaptation of Fassbinder’s play. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant was my introduction, probably like most, to Fassbinder. JACK FERVER on THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT: WHAT: Jack Ferver presents THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT ![]() Guest presenter Jack Ferver has made a name for himself as a dancer and choreographer of cinematically themed performance pieces ( Rumble Ghost) and parodies of nouveau-lesbian camp classics like Notes on a Scandal ( Notes!) and Black Swan ( Swan!), and will no doubt have plenty to say about this terrific dramatic film. Featuring the astonishing Margit Carstensen as a lesbian fashion designer who manipulates her assistant, daughter, mother, and lover– it’s beloved by our guest presenter, critically-acclaimed choreographer Jack Ferver, who calls it a “wickedly funny, sexy, and gorgeous film about how insane we can all be.” Sumptuously filmed by longtime collaborator Michael Ballhaus and featuring Fassbinder regulars Eva Mattes, Hanna Schygulla, and Irm Hermann. “That little girl’s finger is worth more than the lot of you.”įor this month’s August screening, we’re thrilled to finally be able to present a film by the visionary gay German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, especially one as rich and rewarding as the queer classic The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. It’s being presented by choreographer Jack Ferver, who has written a fantastic intro to the film. Sachs, Jack Ferver, Rainer Werner Fassbinderīecause Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Van Kant is one of my favorites by the late German director, I’m reprinting here this email from Ira Sachs, whose IFC Center Queer/Art/Film series is screening the film tonight at 8:00 PM. Performa launched New York’s first performance biennial, Performa 05, in 2005, followed by Performa 07 (2007), and Performa 09 (2009). Performa is the leading organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. ![]() Presented in collaboration with a consortium of more than 40 arts institutions and 25 curators, as well as a network of public spaces and private venues across the city, Performa 11 will ignite New York City with energy and ideas, acting as a vital “think tank” linking minds across the five boroughs and bringing audiences together for brilliant new performances in all disciplines. ![]() The three-week biennial will showcase new work by more than 100 of the most exciting artists working today, in an innovative program breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts. Performa 11, the fourth edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, will be held in New York City from November 1–21, 2011. ![]()
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