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Amalia Ulman

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October 25, 2022

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Amalia Ulman is an “airport-based”, Argentina-born, multidisciplinary artist that often works out of her New York City office. Last year her debut feature film El Planeta, an absurdist-comedy set in her hometown that stars her and her real life mother, premiered at Sundance and received critical acclaim. In addition to her video work, Amalia utilizes social media, fashion magazines, net-art, and installations as vessels for fictional narratives, often blurring the line into reality. For her most well known performance, Excellences & Perfections, she conducted a four month long scripted online performance on her Instagram. Next year she tells me that she’ll be doing some solo shows and shooting her sophomore film Magic Farm. Lucky for us, Amalia is here to tell us what she’s been into.

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Lord knows I love watching men doing their little silly manly things. As a big fan of If… the 1968 film by Lindsay Anderson, you can imagine how I felt the first time I watched Feltham Sings, a Channel4 documentary/musical about a prison for male juveniles. This experiment in reality tv has the magic any format has in its early days and because of this, doesn’t feel as exploitative as your typical contemporary cookie cutter reality shows. Feltham Sings is as fresh and heartfelt as it sounds: Feltham’s young offenders narrate the tragic stories that led them to prison and then sing a song about it in the style of their choice, from rap to jungle. Even the guards participate in some of the “music videos”. That’s it. It’s sad and heartbreaking while subtly comical: the inevitable tenderness of these teens trying to sing, brings in a touch of amateurism that is reminiscent of another favorite of mine: Konkurs, a film by Milos Forman where a series of village girls compete in a singing contest filled with screeching voices, eccentric performances and really interesting 1960’s Czech hairstyles.
Oct 25, 2022

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