Leo gabin adapts a crackup at the race riots to film artsy. Buy the paperback book a crack up at the race riots by harmony korine at, canadas largest bookstore. Rather than try to recreate korines unfilmable text, the dutch artist collective leo gabin are commemorating crack up s rerelease by exhibiting a featurelength film inspired by the text at berlins peres projects. An excerpt from a crackup at the race riots by leo gabin. Across 6 sound tracks, leo gabin samples audio from amateur tutorial and confessional videos found on youtube.
A crackup at the race riots leo gabin reinterpret a harmony korine novel for the youtube generation march 18, 2015 leo gabin reinterpret a harmony korine novel for the youtube generation march 18, 2015. A crackup at the race riots 202015 is the first feature film by leo gabin. Artists leo gabin put the book to film in a recent art installation. A crack up at the race riots excerpt from book 16k795. Capturing the fragmented moments of a life observed. A crackup at the race riots 2016 the movie database. Indie rock band hope of the states named a song on their 2004 debut album the lost riots after the novel. Set in florida and inspired by harmony korines homonymous book, leo gabin s film consists of a collage of youtube videos, mostly selfmade, which depicts negative yet realistic aspects of the lost american dream. This reprinting of korines first novel presents fragments of a portrait in multimedia.
Leo gabin a crackup at the race riots february 21 march 28, 2015 in thinking of the idea of authorship, antiauthorship, and appropriating certain types of. A crackup at the race riots, by the mysterious leo gabin. Purple tv presents an excerpt from artisttrio leo gabin s first feature film a crackup at the race riots based on the eponymous experimental novel by harmony korine. September 24 october 15, 2016 mac adams, leo gabin, john giorno. Leo gabin adapts a crackup at the race riots to film.
A crack up at the race riots leo gabin, 2015 harmony korine is most immediately recognisable for directing films including gummo 1997, julien donkeyboy 1999 and spring breakers 2012 but he has also worked in the fields of photography and experimental writing, the latter most notably in his 1998 novel a crack up at the race riots. Harmony korines original 1998 book a crackup at the race riots was like a vivisection of his unique manic mind. With a filmmakers eye and a pranksters glee, this bizarre collection of jokes, halfremembered scenes, dialogue fragments, movie ideas, and suicide notes is an episodic, epigrammatic lovesong to the world of images. A look at the events surrounding a race war in florida. The film represents florida as a place, a person, an idea and dream that embodies notions of both success and failure. A crackup at the race riots by leo gabin video dailymotion. This autumn the museum dhondtdhaenens presents the first feature film by the belgian artist trio leo gabin. A crackup at the race riots leo gabin reinterpret a harmony korine novel for the youtube generation march 18, 2015. Leo gabin belgium, 2015, 60 experimental feature a crackup at the race riots is the first feature film by artisttrio leo gabin and is based on the. This is to set up our understanding of leo gabin s work that, along with much of the digital art we see in 2019, has come online in the adolescent years of the internet. A crackup at the race riots 2016 changes the movie. Gallery artists have been included in a wide array of internationally renowned exhibitions and their works are regularly exhibited by leading museums.
This is the first feature film by belgian artisttrio leo gabin, and is based on the eponymous novel by harmony korine. Taking florida as their location of choice, the directors have put together a collage of images found on youtube, consisting mainly of home movies that depict the internalisation of mtv culture, for instance, or drug abuse and natural disasters. For a better experience on mubi, update your browser. An excerpt from a crackup at the race riots purple.
Supposedly there is another adaptation with franco in the works. Wolins curatorial text for leo gabin s solo show at sean horton presents in dallas begins by providing a quick prologue about appropriation artists. Much like korines filmography, a crackup at the race riots teeters between the liquid narrative embedded into the page and the imagery the reader cant help but be possessed. A crack up at the race riots, museum dhondtdhaenens, ghent, be. Minute but signature moments such as the smacking of lips, are repeated and played as.
A crack up at the race riots is a novel written by harmony korine, writer of such cult films as kids and gummo. A crackup at the race riots leo gabin reinterpret a harmony korine novel for the youtube generation. The book is not without its morosity, morbidity, and entropic worldview it is set against the backdrop of an ongoing florida race war, after all, but it is the relationship between comedy and mental breakdown that is most prominently emphasized. A crackup at the race riots by belgian artist trio leo gabin is inspired by harmony korines book of the same name. Working across video, digital media, drawing, print, painting and sculpture, leo gabin investigate american youth culture through the lens of endless amounts of amateur video. Working closely with collectors, art advisors, and institutions. Tallahassee is centered around leo gabins first feature film a crackup at the race riots, based on the harmony korine novel of the same title. An adaptation of harmony korines experimental novel, a crack up at the race riots by the belgian collective leo gabin, appropriating amateur video. A crackup at the race riots 2016 directed by leo gabin. Tallahassee is centered around your first feature film a crackup at the race riots, based on the harmony korine novel of the same title. Moreover, it interprets contemporary social and political reality similarly to how korines novel collects allegedly documentary fragments of american culture. How a 56minute youtube vision of a harmony korine novel points.
Reddit gives you the best of the internet in one place. Set in florida and inspired by harmony korines homonymous book, leo gabins film consists of a collage of youtube videos, mostly selfmade, which depicts. Harmony korines novel a crack up at the race riots back in print this year plus new spring breakers trailer. Their latest project involved the video adaptation of a 1998 novel by harmony karine. Tallahassee is centered around your first feature film a crackup at the race riots, based on the harmony. Korine is the voice of his mediasavvy generation and a crackup at the race riots is the satiric lovechild of his dark. As an amalgamation of short stories, list, rumors, suicide notes and jokes the novel was suitable for translation into the kind of youtube sourced content with which leo gabin had previously worked. From peres projects, leo gabin, a crackup at the race riots 20. A look at the events surrounding a race war in new york.
655 650 55 1420 109 188 208 900 718 684 311 1100 742 1516 680 1236 1469 1263 762 642 482 874 1571 1020 188 1055 999 1091 1058 571 64 1145