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AN EVENING WITH STEWART HOME: RE-ENTER THE DRAGON
Dir. Stewart Home, 2016.
UK. 41 min.
In RE-ENTER THE DRAGON, Stewart Home uses found cinematic imagery and a dissociated soundtrack influenced by 1950s Lettrist cinema as a means of exploring cultural hybridity. The genre of martial arts films known as 'Brucesploitation' is theoretically dissected while onscreen an actor hyped as 'the Bruce Lee of the Philippines' explodes into action. 'Brucesploitation' deployed underhand marketing devices such as using actors with stage names including Bruce Le and Dragon Lee, to trick the unsuspecting into thinking they might be watching a film by Bruce Lee, a man who died before most of these super-cheap exploitation flicks were made. RE-ENTER THE DRAGON is where action cinema has a nervous breakdown and discovers that hypermasculinity inevitably finds itself tipping over into the feminine.
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Spectacle is pleased to present a survey of artist Stewart Home's moving image works on the occasion of his cult classic, Defiant Pose, being put back into print by Penny-Ante Editions. Named the "Best Book of the Year" in 1991 by The Gay Times, today Chris Kraus describes Home's "proto-porn pageantry" as "timely (and) timeless... a satirical masterpiece, as funny twenty-five years later as when it first appeared." With STEWART HOME: FILMS (1986-2016) it is our hope that those familiar and unfamiliar with "cult writer" Stewart Home will gain new insight into his artistic practice.
Copies of Defiant Pose will be available at the screening.
STEWART HOME is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, activist, and internationally-acclaimed author. Homes writings include Pure Mania (Polygon, 1989), Defiant Pose (Peter Owen, 1991), Slow Death (Serpents Tail, 1996), 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess (Canongate, 2002), Tainted Love (Virgin Books, 2005), and Memphis Underground (Snowbooks, 2007). Between 2007 and 2010, Home was the commissioning editor of Semina, a series of acclaimed experimental novels from London art publisher Book Works, to which he contributed, Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie (2010). In 2013, Stewart Home released Mandy, Charlie & Mary-Jane (Penny-Ante Editions), named one of the Best Paperbacks of the Year by the Guardian, followed by The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones published by Test Centre in 2014. He was born and continues to reside in London. (www.stewarthomesociety.org)
Thanks to Rebekah Weikel & Penny-Ante Editions, Sukhdev Sandu & The Colloquium for Unpopular Culture, and Triple Canopy.
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124 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11249
United States
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