Macabre Camp & Memory Pictures: Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and Ceija Stojka’s “We Lived in Secrecy (A Roma Memory)”
Art / Film

Macabre Camp & Memory Pictures: Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and Ceija Stojka’s “We Lived in Secrecy (A Roma Memory)”

Laced with easy ironies, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest forgoes subtlety in its rendering of the mundane monstrosities of Nazi concentration camp administrators through one distinctly complacent family. Aided by the minimalism of Mica Levi’s shrieking and belching score, cottagecore bliss is juxtaposed against an aural backdrop of carnage where occasional gunshots and screams … Continue reading

No Twerk Zones: Tirzah and Henrike Naumann at SculptureCenter
Art / Music

No Twerk Zones: Tirzah and Henrike Naumann at SculptureCenter

The Tirzah exhibition at SculptureCenter is as basic and enchanting as Tirzah’s music, which would perhaps be best described as mellow melancholia with spasms of grunge. If you weren’t already enamored with Tirzah, you’d probably walk into the exhibition, comprised of just two modestly scaled screens displaying music videos, all of which are readily available … Continue reading