Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Posing, Speaking, Revealing | - New York Times
"'Endurance,' a video at Newark's Center for Contemporary Art that shows 24 homeless youths standing, in turn, for an hour each on a Seattle street." The film is sped up so that each hour passes in 5 minutes with a voiceover - "recorded autobiographies; the subjects tell how and why they got where they are, and how they feel about it.
"They speak, often revealingly, about families, truncated childhoods and complicated love, about their plans to change their lives, and their equally determined plans not to change. And as they're talking, you see them on the screen, holding their places as life whizzes around them as day turns to dusk, dusk to night. At first they look awkward and unromantically vulnerable, then substantial and resilient, then admirable - valorous, even."
"'Endurance,' a video at Newark's Center for Contemporary Art that shows 24 homeless youths standing, in turn, for an hour each on a Seattle street." The film is sped up so that each hour passes in 5 minutes with a voiceover - "recorded autobiographies; the subjects tell how and why they got where they are, and how they feel about it.
"They speak, often revealingly, about families, truncated childhoods and complicated love, about their plans to change their lives, and their equally determined plans not to change. And as they're talking, you see them on the screen, holding their places as life whizzes around them as day turns to dusk, dusk to night. At first they look awkward and unromantically vulnerable, then substantial and resilient, then admirable - valorous, even."
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