Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) is a comedy reflecting on a couple of moments. The first, the foundational legend of Pink Narcissus in which James Bidgood elaborately dressed his Manhattan studio apartment to film and photograph sequences with his lover and street trade before returning the space to its humdrum reality; the second, the …
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Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp) was filmed at Cross Street Studios, London, on Friday 8th April 2022, on an Arri 416 camera with Kodak Vision 3 200T(7213) 16mm film. Peter has kindly shared the following on-set photos of the filmmaking process. With thanks to Felicity Hickson for the above insight into her moonlight-drenched …
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A conversation between filmmaker Peter Strickland and curator Lauren Carroll Harris to mark the release of Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp). Tell me about the influence of James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus on this work. Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus came out of a tradition of underground filmmakers making erotic work in their apartments yet what they …
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To allow you to dive into the rich sonic world of Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp), here we present two playlists inspired by the film, its sexy melancholy and 1970s NYC setting. First, director Peter Strickland’s playlist, much of which is classical, French ballet. Despite what you might call their disreputable streak, many of …
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If you’ve ever seen a creature looming in tufts of cloud or eerie faces whorled in wood grain, then you’ve experienced pareidolia, the mind’s impulse to glean sense from arbitrary textures. In 2013, a Berlin-based design studio gifted an algorithm the poetry of this human error: designers combined a Google Maps trove of satellite imagery …