Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realms - Softcover

Rupe, Shade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900486695 ISBN 13: 9781900486699

Publisher: Headpress, 2011

Synopsis

The smaller half of Penn & Teller ends his silence for a lengthy discussion of magic and falsehoods, John Waters' stars Divine opens the closet during his transition to playing male roles, Crispin Glover gives love to Fassbinder, the star of Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill, Kill! Tura Satana tells it like it is from burlesque shows to Hollywood, Alejandro Jodorowsky showers cinema lovers with psychomagic, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge lays down the gauntlet with his creations Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, Udo Kier, the star of Andy Warhol's Dracula and Frankenstein, hunts for virgins, Gaspar Noé helps up Enter the Void, Viennese performance artist Hermann Nitsch lets the blood flow, Chas. Balun paints us Deep Red, Richard Stanley unleashes a Dust Devil with his Hardware, and much much more. Shade Rupe's DARK

About this title

About the Author

Throughout 2009 and 2010, Shade Rupe produced the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film in Seattle and Portland, programmed the 26th Olympia Film Festival, served as Chairman of the International Jury at the 15th Lund International Festival of Fantastic Film in southern Sweden, curated a weekend film festival at Sundance, coproduced the four-city Ken Russell tour Russellmania! along with Fantasia, Lincoln Center, the American Cinematheque, and Rue Morgue, wrote the feature film Fear Factory, was a guest at the Night Visions festival in Helsinki, and completed this book. He also edited the acclaimed Funeral Party journals and has done a mess of other stuff. A few of his favorite films are Performance, The Devils, Zardoz, All That Jazz, Stardust Memories, and The Hourglass Sanitorium, and favorite musicians he's seen live include Grizzly Bear, Krzysztof Penderecki, The Master Musicians of Bukkake, Diamanda Galás, and The Black Angels.

From the Back Cover

DARK STARS RISING -- A neural matrix of stunning artists from America, Austria, and Beyond. Divine shoots his shot, Teller plays dead, Crispin Glover asks What is it?, Hermann Nitsch orgires in blood, William Lustig unleashes a Maniac, Floria Sigismondi molds Marilyn Manson, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge throbs her gristle, Alejandro Jodorowsky conjures psychomagic, Stephen O'Malley shatters the Sunn O))), The Torture King skews and skewers, Richard Kern fingers Lydia Lunch, Tura Satana drops another veil, Johanna Went makes a Big Mess, Peter Sotos loosens his belt, Udo Kier prefers hardcore, Gaspar Noé enters the Void, and much, much more! Dark Stars Rising is a visually sensational, pulsating miasma--a hearty feast for the mind!

Edition details

• Publisher: Headpress
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900486695
• ISBN 13: 9781900486699
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 568