Not exact matches
This speaks, of course, of larger industry problems, of issues of funding and distribution, of what stories get made and marketed to larger
audiences, of which films get studio backing, which stars get cast, etc. but it nevertheless seemed
rather telling that stories of young
black men and cross-cultural relationships, and foreign films about burgeoning and belated sexual awakenings end up ghettoized this way.
Zaatari's two - part contribution to dOCUMENTA (13) similarly challenges the expectations
audiences may bring by casting his latest works on archives not in the context of politics, history and memory but
rather as a love story for two men played by three actors, in the
black and white, 16 mm silent film The End of Time (2012), and as a mentor — apprentice drama in Time Capsule (2012), an extended performance for which the artist buried a concrete - encased collection of small monochromatic paintings — a tribute to an unnamed photographer said to be losing his sight — in a hole in the ground that was dug next to the Fulda River in the Karlsaue Park, with four spokes of rebar marking the spot.
As one poster noted, with this subjective definition, it seems like the test for whether something is a
black swan is run on the
audience in question,
rather than the information itself.