we are all alone – we are all related at the same time – sometimes we meet, sometimes we don’t
told through disco – Donna Summer, Diana Ross
death of disco 1979 – by rock and anti disco movement
Stuck on you – Davinia Hewlett
not knowingness
making love
rub
throb
realness – Paris is burning reelness – video – what is realness – you can be real if you pass
the progress of love couldn’t catch death
Sophie Calle -filmed last moments of mother’s death
Amateuraism
Fragility and fragidity – Fassbinder films – (women ‘think’) – characters ‘look’ at and are looking – looks at exclusion – ways it’s shot – creates rigidity
Tod Haynes – ‘Far from Heaven’ – freezes and looks evoke fragility, tension – “only one in the room feeling”
Perfection – Felix Gonzales Torres – clocks piece, dancing man in gallery