Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside) (1997)
4m
Running Time
August 1, 1997Release Date
Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside) (1997)
4m
Running Time
August 1, 1997Release Date
Plot.
Deemed "too ambient for broadcast" by MTV's AMP, Thaemlitz' first video "Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)" contrasts cinematic footage from drag performances in upstate New York with highly processed digital audio from his CD "Couture Cosmetique" (US: Caipirinha/Japan: Daisyworld, 1997). Thaemlitz is known for his fusion of computer synthesis techniques with non-essentialist transgenderism as two methodoligies which appropriate and critically recontextualize cultural signifiers, whether they be audio sources or gender constructs. The audio for "Silent Passability" deals with fears of violence while travelling in 'passable' drag between safe zones, and Thaemlitz' unsettling compulsion to remain silent in such circumstances so as to avoid confrontation. Antithetically beatific images from the transgendered stage question posturing as a means for alieviating and/or concealing such oppressive circumstances.
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Cast & Crew.
Terre Thaemlitz
Director / Editor / Producer / Film Processor
Lady Jane Fairchild
Darienne Lake
Aggy Dune
Pandora Boxx
Heather Sky
Details.
This Movie Is About.
experimental
liquid television
terre thaemlitz