Steven Arnold

  • Steven Arnold – Messages, Messages (1968)

    Steven Arnold1961-1970DramaQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmUSA

    Messages, Messages (1968)

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    A journey of the psyche into the world of the unconscious. Made when Wiese and Arnold were students at the San Francisco Art Institute, the surrealistic film is influenced by Dali, Bunuel and the German expressionists. The film was premiered at the St. Regis Hotel in New York by Salvador Dali and invited to Director’s Fortnight at Cannes.Read More »

  • Steven Arnold – The Liberation of Mannique Mechanique (1967)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtExperimentalQueer Cinema(s)Short FilmSteven ArnoldUSA

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    Loosely based on William A. Seiter’s 1948 film One Touch of Venus, Steven Arnold’s first film is a macabre, decadent work presenting mannequins and models that travel through strange universes.

    From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
    A haunting, genuinely decadent work about mannequins that may be real and girls that may be models, journeying through strange universes towards possible self-discovery. An exorbitant, perverse sensibility informs the ambiguous images and events.Read More »

  • Steven Arnold – Luminous Procuress (1972)

    1971-1980CultExperimentalSteven ArnoldUSA

    Dalí considered Luminous Procuress ‘a work of genius’. Featuring members of legendary San Francisco performance troupe The Cockettes, the film was directed by the artist and filmmaker Steven Arnold, a muse and model of Dalí’s. Dalí always referred to Arnold as his ‘prince’, and allegedly co-produced (or at least partly funded) the film, for which he held an elaborate screening at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. Andy Warhol and numerous luminaries of New York society attended the spectacular event, and Dalí projected the film upside down, backwards and sideways. The Village Voice called the film ‘a tour de force of the imagination – a journey through peekboxes of naked tableaux, theatres of mechanical dreams, feasts of monsters and piles of humanity.’Read More »

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