Best friends with late rising art star Dash Snow and renowned for openings that demand police reinforcement to disperse the crowds, Ryan McGinley is quintessential Lower East Side art scene royalty. Like most aristocrats, he sticks to his own and recently convinced American beauty queen Carolyn Murphy (Estée Lauder’s lead face since 2002) to partake in his short film creation entitled, “Entrance Romance (it felt like a kiss).” Backed with monastic chants, the frames capture Murphy’s slow motion facial physiognomy dealing with exposure to fire, the lick of a dog’s tongue and collision with a fish bowl (and live goldfish). The result is a combination of the intimate intensity from McGinley’s more recent black and white nude portraits, and the perverse awkwardness of his more famous earlier work, in which apparently unstaged carefree – and usually naked – teenagers run through highways or cavort in trees. As for whether this film is inspired, spiritual art or just a misguided, misogynistic mess? Well, that’s up for you to decide. Check out the video below:
- Chloe Roubert
The camera used in this short film was designed by a corporation that, until swayed by an internal executive that there was money in other arenas of the viewer, enabled the military to watch the impact of high speed projectiles and explosives with the ultimate goal of producing a more effective killing event.
Where can you go with this? Lars Von Trier in anti-christ shows copulation with this camera meant to kill, and in repurposing the weapon into a voyeuristic look at copulation there is no more power in something being simply, “slow motion.”
The horse lifts ups it’s legs while it runs. The explosion defers to the left of its intended trajectory.
The opening scene of the dog shaking is as old as Birds-Pleix, 2006 (or before). The only thing this lacks is a “Tide” logo.