SEPT 16-18, 2022: We are proud to be part of the legendary Coney Island Film Festival in the short film section with MARGINALITÉS/MARGINALITIES - which is film no 3 of 4 short film works in my How We Live Together video art series featuring acclaimed American actor Bill Sage in 4 monologue readings of with audio by JG Thirlwell - The festival also includes screenings of the original The Warriors and a new documentary on the infamous NYC 70-80's club Max's Kansas City: Nightclubbing:the birth of Punk Rock (trailer here).
MARGINALITÉS/MARGINALITIES is the third in a series of four short films Senstad created during the pandemic of 2020-21 in collaboration with acclaimed actor Bill Sage and JG Thirlwell on audio management. Each chapter is a performative reading - a cinematic internal monologue extracted from French philosopher Roland Barthes 1977 university lecture series How To Live Together, on societal conditions for tolerance through ideorrythmic living formats as an analytical overview of a transformational era of entropy, chaos and regeneration. Sage's embodiment of Barthes philosophical lectures in his monologue readings and his self-filmed performances during the pandemic, creates a shared activation and a real time response to the human experience of living through larger societal crisis as it is happening as a way of embodying transformation.
In contemplating ethics of citizenry, states of isolation, disenfranchisement and marginalization of the individual, and the societal erosion taking place globally, the film unfolds and journeys through the critical eye and visual poetry of the internal voice of Barthes philosophical language.
By drawing lines through the history of religious monastic systems, anthropological and spiritual forensics, and the agency of the human experience, Sage's performance reveals the history and conditions of power and oppression in relation to our autonomous space.
The series of films are each around 10-12 minutes long and present vignettes of stream of consciousness imagery inspired by Barthes text material that Sage embarks on reinterpeting, with contemplative scenes on societal transformation, archival footage and documentary street shots, witnessing life through the pandemic in New York, one of the hardest hit cities in the world in the spring of 2020 and its aftermath.
With generous support from BKV/ Norske Billedkunstnere.
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