Sentences with phrase «as hallucinatory»

For this exhibition, Papademetropoulos explores the cult of domesticity as a hallucinatory fantasy embedded in dimensions above and below our physical plane.

Not as hallucinatory as Bernard Frize does, mind you — though Frize seems to me to be concerned primarily with painterly procedure for its own sake.

Wormwood is assembled as a hallucinatory, psychologically penetrating collage and plays like a pulse - pounding thriller, a damning indictment of institutional malfeasance, and a chilling portrait of both self - destructive obsession and the elusiveness of truth.

The author discusses such approaches as hallucinatory, visionary, spiritual, and other objective realities.

Not exact matches

Central to the beauty and power of the ballet Swan Lake — of which Black Swan is a sort of contemporary, hallucinatory offspring — are contrasts and dynamics, complimentary parts of a yin - yang whole: Light and dark, good and evil, soft and loud (as in Tchaikovsky's famous music).

These were usually texts of Scripture which, sometimes damnatory and sometimes favorable, would come in a half - hallucinatory form as if they were voices, and fasten on his mind and buffet it between them like a shuttlecock.

If we reject the first assumption, Isaiah's experience can only be hallucinatory; if, on the other hand, we reject only the second, then his experience might be taken as completely veridical.

If you're looking for hallucinatory life - forms, as well as some of the greatest biodiversity on Earth, head for the nearest beach.

The film gets increasingly hallucinatory as it progresses, and there's a vivid sense of growing danger.

As a portfolio of visionary images of surreal landscapes and hallucinatory flora and fauna, the movie sometimes dazzles.

7 Boxes is both a tense and frightening crime film as well as a sometimes - dreamy evocation of life in the sprawling underclass, its hallucinatory aspects, its chaos and violence, its fantasies.

As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right - wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation.

Terry Gilliam's hallucinatory 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's classic of gonzo journalism stars Johnny Depp as Thompson's alter ego Raoul Duke and Benicio De Toro (thrillingly and terrifying unencumbered by any behavioral boundaries) as Dr. Gonzo in the drug - fueled carnival atmosphere of Las Vegas, circa 1971.

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

Promising that the film will be as hyperreal and hallucinatory as his earlier work, Odoul sees the film as «following a subjective point of view and a trajectory, crossing a landscape rather than giving us a broad canvas or attempting to depict the battlefield.»

For those not disturbed by this alienation effect, there's also an infant - snatching (and - devouring) witch, as the title promises, along with escalating paranoia, multiple crises of faith, hallucinatory madness (culminating in one brief but unforgettable shock), and a literally diabolical goat called Black Phillip.

Lee is very good at creating a sense of free - floating dread, but he, and his screenwriter Mark Protosevich, don't have a real flair for pulp (or, as with David Lynch, the hallucinatory horrors of pulp).

#Horror boasts a sense of hallucinatory grandeur that shouldn't be taken entirely for granted, likening social media to a communicable disease, though the lack of emotional counterpoint grows nearly as shrill as the target of the film's ire.

Assembled as a string of sensational episodes — James Caan uses a photo of an infected vagina to dissuade a student from going braless; a blank - eyed boy mutilates a kitten while his peers look on impassively — the film approaches a kind of hallucinatory hysteria, a prolonged shriek of smash cuts and shifting film stock.

The script (by del Toro and Matthew Robbins) anticipates problems and corrects them before they can take shape, too; just as it seems his story may get bogged down with exposition, the action shifts into a hallucinatory high gear.

As the film goes on, this hesitance to show violence in tandem with the hallucinatory sound and flashes of images from Joe's past begins to paint a picture; of a man whose abusive childhood has stayed with him.

As Ramsay imbues the film with hallucinatory and elliptical imagery, Greenwood symbiotically ebbs and flows alongside, contributing to not only the emotional state of our lead character but to the entire film as a wholAs Ramsay imbues the film with hallucinatory and elliptical imagery, Greenwood symbiotically ebbs and flows alongside, contributing to not only the emotional state of our lead character but to the entire film as a wholas a whole.

Those ghouls, ghosts, and goblins are now lurching towards you in a space that feels rather real, and a panic may set in when you realize that your hallucinatory surroundings seem to change whenever you so much as glance in a different direction.

«If there's such a thing as an ideal time of day to expose yourself to the deranging, hallucinatory visions of the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg, midnight might well be it,» writes critic and Criterion contributor Terrence Rafferty in a t...

Director Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness was set during the Vietnam War and starred Marlon Brando as the mad Colonel Kurtz, who has gone AWOL in the Cambodian jungle with an army of local warriors.

Hallucinatory and perturbing, and fiercely acted by Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood, Gerald's Game is a single - setting horror survival story that doubles as a powerful allegory about the specter of sexual abuse.

For Dark Horse, he has dropped the shock misanthropy that increasingly marked his work for what almost begins as a comedy of manners but becomes more hallucinatory.

The trouble is that while the printed memoir available at Amazon for under eleven dollars may be filled with reminiscence, the book, unlike the movie, comes across principally as a celebration of life while the film is a dreary downer, however filled with Slawimir Idziak's hallucinatory scenes.

But then the film gets increasingly baleful, and indeed hallucinatory, as the violence turns crueler: one character is tortured while being simultaneously dismantled and dangled in mid-air, another is menaced with needle - like spikes of light.

When their relationship takes a more physical turn, she goes from patient to partner, but soon after moving in with Paul, she realizes he has been hiding a part of his identity, and her life takes on a hallucinatory hue as she tries to adjust.

Stocked with hallucinatory gore, grungy desert survival games and a pounding electronica score, the movie is the debut feature of France's Coralie Fargeat, who joins Julia Ducournau (Raw) as part of a new generation of horror directors who eat the boys for breakfast.

Set amid the icy old - world charm of Vienna, the fragmentary romantic drama builds into a hallucinatory thriller, as Harvey Keitel's police detective — sans accent but with killer shoulder - length John the Baptist locks — begins to question Garfunkel over Russell's abortive suicide attempt and forces us to reconsider all that's gone before.

It dares to cut between hallucinatory dance routines and torture sequences as if the two normally work side by side.

His style has been referred to as both «magical realism» and «hallucinatory realism,» and has been compared to the writings of Franz Kafka and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Orta returned to the series roots as a shooter and utilized the new console's graphic horsepower to push Panzer Dragoon's hallucinatory imagery to its limits.

The Flat Side of the Knife combines physical spaces with illusory spaces that appear only in mirrors, reflecting what the artist refers to as «layers of consciousness,» akin to psychological and hallucinatory spaces in the mind.

His first solo exhibition, at the Lefevre Gallery received critical acclaim in 1944, followed by a number of hallucinatory, finely - painted portraits that marked him as an artist to watch.

Ningde has described these works as deliberately generating «an illusory feeling,» an insight into the hallucinatory power of photography as a whole.

Thierry de Duve, who speculatively links Eilshemius's erotic mythology with the iconography of Duchamp's Large Glass, describes his style as «hallucinatory and repetitive, his subject matter obsessed with impotent eroticism, and his technique crude and uncontrolled.»

Though influenced by Willem de Kooning, whom he knew, as well as Arshile Gorky and Franz Kline, Whitten defined his own dynamic brand of hallucinatory abstract painting.

His references span from the deep and dark corners of the carefully mannered art world to the more esoteric branches of culture such as inglorious comic books, unsung hip hop heroes, and freakish, hallucinatory imagery from the drug - fueled political past.

Its hallucinatory terrors look back to magic realism, a kind of Surrealism as seen through American eyes and American cities.

Disenchantment with an oppressive rationalism mounted, as did a corollary interest in fantastic, hallucinatory experiences.

If Not Apollo, the Breeze takes the ancient literary history of the oracle at Delphi as its starting point to explore the irrational, ambiguous, infallible, portentous, performative, hallucinatory, and predictive.

The exhibit, organized by gallery director Leonie Bradbury, emphasizes painting's heft in the canon, the hallucinatory beauty it can evoke, and the medium's role as a carrier of history, allegory, and symbolism.

New Museum's Pixel Forest is billed as the most extensive representation of Pipilotti Rist's career in the U.S. Swiss artist's immersive hallucinatory video installations, often times projected at grand scales to cover entire interiors, gloriously blend technological means and phantasmagoric fluxes of color.

The work employs a mix of theatrical genres ranging from the slide lecture, the fashion show, the sculptural display, and the live musical act as a means to illustrate the fictional parallel world of the San San International, a «hallucinatory mega-convention of staggering proportions».

Beyond this fantastical, hallucinatory room, her oneiric universe continues as viewers are treated to their own piece of infinity — the exhibition concludes with `' Infinity Mirrored Room - Filled with the Brilliance of Life».

Previously the subject of three major exhibitions at The Guggenheim in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, James Turrell's hallucinatory and sublime installations are recognised as among the most searching and affecting of our time.

As Roberta Smith put it, «Nordström's drawings have a hallucinatory power all their own, which emanates less from his imagery than from the extraordinary range of drawing techniques that bring it into being.»