Some Kind of Loving
Compiled in June 2000 | Curated by Astria Suparak
Some Kind of Loving explores sexuality from its formulation in childhood through adolescence and adulthood, and references psychoanalytic theory as easily as pop culture. These films and videos decode desire and address the ethics of healthy vs. naughty expressions of lust via pornography, voyeurism, reworkings of parent-child relationships, memories and fantasy. Techniques used include the home movie aesthetics of low-grade video and hand-processed Super 8 film, as well as optical printing, stop-motion animation, and manipulated found footage. – From the Some Kind of Loving poster
“All six films in the collection traipse through uncharted sexual terrain, using rough-and-ready low-end video and an appealing anti-aesthetic. Coarse and scruffy, yes, but also very hot, in a weird sort of way.” – RES Magazine
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- Some Kind of Loving video tape box cover (front and back). 2000. Designed by Miranda July, with an image from a video by Jennifer Reeder. Tape curated by Astria Suparak.
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- Some Kind of Loving poster (back). 2000. 17″ x 24″. Written by Astria Suparak with interviews with the artists, and Miranda July. Designed by Miranda July. Inserted into the box of Co-Star Tape #3, curated by Astria Suparak.
No Place Like Home #1
Karen Yasinsky
It begins with Dorothy’s red slippers. They allowed her to live out a fantasy in which she was the center of attention, strongly desired by forces both good and evil. She got to live in a surreal world, lovingly attended to by 3 middle-aged men. She conquered evil and returned home safely.
Fine Lines
Jane Gang
“Repression breeds fine lines.” The content is about child abuse – parental misuse of power and disregard for a very young person’s healthy development. As a result of continual abuse, whatever the form, all areas of that child’s life are negatively affected.
Lullaby
Jennifer Reeder
I remember Madonna in the early 1980’s. I was young (pre-teen). Her music made me feel sexy before I knew what sexy was, and it made me hopeful before I realized that the world is a very difficult place. As an adult woman, I often emote as I did when I was 11. This tape is a homage to that young girl, how perfectly beautiful and perfectly mean life can be.
pornfilm
Stephanie Barber
“Pornfilm” is a short film about love and sex, about the narratives of each. A woman reads a brief story about an actor’s real life marriages, failure and later ‘wedded bliss.’ The reading is stiff, awkward and stumbling. The images are of two actors having sex; with an investigatory band ping ponging back and forth, an incessant watching and exposing.
Martina’s Playhouse
Peggy Ahwesh
I had shot a lot with young Martina and her mother Diane over the years and consider this film like a self-aware home movie made with the complicity of the characters, knowingly shot from a female-privileged perspective.