The thirty - two - year - old painter creates site - specific work, letting his paintings complete the architecture of their venue with sequences of canvases that result
in hallucinatory effects.
Although Kusama previously illustrated a 2012 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, her marker drawings for The Little Mermaid are more enigmatic, even sinister, packed with unblinking eyes and tentacled creatures swirling
in a hallucinatory underwater world.
If Doig's paintings have always been far - out
in their hallucinatory charge, the most recent ones are even further out: things observed in the real world are transformed by the act of painting into something approaching dreamscapes.
Alchemical Reaction by Andrea Scott
In a hallucinatory catalog essay co-written in 1966 by Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, an extraterrestrial comments on a canvas by the engineer of his spaceship: «I'm glad you're conventional, with no qualms about painting beautiful pictures.
The talk will focus on the recent exhibition Period Rooms at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, where the historical rooms are engaged
in a hallucinatory argument with the «White Cube.»
In this hallucinatory book, Lindqvist explores the ramifications of European colonialism, drawing a clear and devastating link between its legacy and the crimes of the Holocaust.
Brigitte Lin's descent into madness, in particular, is beautifully rendered by both the actress and the filmmaker; at one point, she seduces Cheung's Ouyang
in a hallucinatory sequence in which identity seems to become mutable and unstable, an effect established mostly through simple but superbly elegant editing.
Hairstylist AKKI riffs on the ever - present braid trend
in this hallucinatory, kaleidoscopic image from our series A Different Kind of Beauty.
Only Cundey asserting himself now and again (particularly in a masterful ménage a trios sequence shot
in hallucinatory slow - motion) grants The Witch Who Came from the Sea its lingering cult status.
It's telling that the film only truly comes alive
in a hallucinatory near - death experience, rendering Ellen's surreal existence visually for one brief sequence.
Reality becomes inseparable from Colleen's unhinged obsessions
in a hallucinatory struggle to accept her own vulnerability and reclaim herself.
How can just the smoke make a veteran relive all the horrors of combat
in hallucinatory detail?
In this hallucinatory state, they believe that they travel to the spirit realm to battle supernatural forces that cause illness.
Not exact matches
The study participants were asked to develop strategies for landing the rocket mentally; this,
in turn, allowed the patients to strategize ways of blocking out
hallucinatory voices inside their heads.
What critics said: «See it
in 3 - D IMAX, people, and you're
in for the
hallucinatory headtrip of the year.»
And this is somehow equivalent to Francis of Assisi, who made out with a
hallucinatory leper
in the 5th century?
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.
We rule out the third possibility of veridical experience on the testimony of Luke
in Acts, who reports a light from heaven and a voice, which we take to be
hallucinatory accompaniments.
I would not call this experience an hallucination, which I take to be purely subjective
in all important respects, having no significant objective referent, but rather a vision, the encounter with a nonperceptual reality made manifest and perceptible by
hallucinatory means.
For starters, its association with marijuana (although the seeds have no
hallucinatory effects, sorry) mean that cultivation and production of help is limited
in some countries.
The PTSD and alcoholism fueled each other, and
in 1997 Davenport had a
hallucinatory breakdown.
Of course,
in my fatigue, I may well have been
hallucinatory.
The blooms of this type of mistletoe look like great clusters of brilliant orange grapes and can seem
hallucinatory in the summer heat.
Fitting, then, that she should return to skewer the strange times we live
in through the
hallucinatory lens of The Twilight Zone.
Researchers also tested the validity of conscious experiences using objective markers for the first time
in a large study to determine whether claims of awareness compatible with out - of - body experiences correspond with real or
hallucinatory events.
For all of its carefully executed, cool style, soundtracked to a retro synth score and ironic music cuts, «Revenge» is intensely raw, a violent and
hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective
in this historically exploitative and misogynistic genre.
Suffused with fantastical elements, dreamlike sequences and
hallucinatory images, A Fantastic Woman stars Daniela Vega, a trans actress, and her performance roots the film
in a kind of intimate verisimilitude.
A New York cop (Keitel) is hopelessy addicted to drugs, gambling, and sex,
in this intense,
hallucinatory portrait of sin and redemption.
There are a couple of
hallucinatory sequences that don't quite work, and the score by Paul Mills comes swooping
in, insistent upon being inspirational
in a way that feels like unnecessary underlining.
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.
In 2018, deep into the era of the «cinematic universe» and series like Westworld, whose very structure begs to be diagrammed, Annihilation's
hallucinatory haziness feels bracingly out of step with the direction expansive sci - fi has been taking.
(2005), a British soccer drama starring Kuno Becker and Alessandro Nivola; Flushed Away (2006), a DreamWorks CG - animated picture about a mouse named Roddy who gets flushed down the toilet and winds up
in a vermin - infested city called Ratropolis; and Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, a
hallucinatory musical love story, set against the turbulent backdrop of the»60s, with countless Beatles songs providing the backdrop.The same period found Clement hard at work developing several stage musicals: Victoria's Secret, with a score by Paul Williams and Dave Stewart; Helen of Troy, libretto by Brendan Healy and AC / DC frontman Brian Johnson.
Revenge French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat tears into the rape revenge genre with a startling ferocity
in her debut feature, a violent and
hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective
in this historically exploitative and misogynistic arena.
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.
There are moments here that arrest you with their
hallucinatory power, like a gay - club rave that becomes the shimmery dance number of Marina's dreams, or a stylized tracking shot
in which she confronts an overpowering and highly metaphorical wind.
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.
John Maclean's stripped - down,
hallucinatory neo-Western Slow West follows civilized Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit - McPhee) on a cross-country trek to find his lost love Rose (Caren Pistorius), who does not love him
in return.
, a
hallucinatory psychodrama kept under a tight lid
in the weeks leading up to its premiere.
It's about finding a place to belong
in a world that doesn't make it easy, and it's also about the almost
hallucinatory anxiety of becoming a parent.
His
hallucinatory experiences formed the basis of a novel — which
in turn spawned this singular Eighties head trip from connoisseur of the weird Ken Russell.
The film's
hallucinatory vision was obscured
in the American theatrical release, which deleted nearly twenty minutes of crucial scenes and details.
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.
Director William Dieterle's 1941 film adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's short story, «The Devil and Daniel Webster `'» is a melodramatic fever dream, a
hallucinatory tour de force
in which marvelous, evocative effects and extraordinary p...
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.
Peter Strickland, whose other feature movie «Katalan Varga» is about a woman traveling
in the Carpathian Mountains with a small boy seeking vengeance against her abusers, is on a similar track
in his sophomore feature about Gilderoy, an innocent abroad who seems too overcome by inertia to escape extreme culture shock and thereby reverts into his own
hallucinatory world.
(My friend Martim Avilez, who fought
in that war and never forgot, recently died
in an institution for badly damaged veterans... so it was on my mind, but Costa's work has a
hallucinatory effect...) Because it's easy to fall
in love with Ventura.
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.
To call his
hallucinatory Conrad retelling, with its reduction of anti-American forces to voices
in the jungle and faceless civilians to be mowed down with glee, a true summary of the war is a decidedly Amerocentric view, yet the intimate power of this undulating epic creates an atmosphere that speaks to a war within, if not the external war happening around the characters.
«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...