Ron Vawter

  • Bruce Yonemoto and Norman Yonemoto – Made in Hollywood (1990)

    1981-1990Bruce YonemotoExperimentalNorman YonemotoUSA

    Synopsis wrote:
    Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of television and cinema. Quoting from a catalogue of popular styles and sources, from TV commercials to The Wizard of Oz, the Yonemotos construct a parable of the Hollywood image-making industry from a pastiche of narrative cliches: A small-town ingenue goes West to find her dream and loses her innocence; the patriarch of a Hollywood studio nears death; a New York couple seeks screenwriting fame and fortune in the movies. With deadpan humor and hyperbolic visual stylization, the Yonemotos layer artifice upon artifice, constructing an image-world where reality and representation, truth and simulation, are meaningless distinctions.Read More »

  • Bette Gordon – Empty Suitcases (1980)

    1971-1980Bette GordonShort FilmUSA

    Bette Gordon explores the cinematic representation of women in this feminist experimental work, which, in the words of the filmmaker, centers on “women’s inability to place and define themselves in language and politics, the location of radical struggle.”Read More »

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