Twelve Tales Told
Johann Lurf, 2014, AT, digital, 4'
Johann Lurf’s maximalist barrage of Hollywood studio logos, transforms these iconic corporate preludes to the big production-to-come into a sustained, stuttering spectacle in which fractured and fantastical worlds collide into a bombastic anticlimax. Like a riff on Jack Goldstein’s looping Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1975), Twelve Tales Told has an aggressive musicality that resonates with our sonic memory, and rather ingeniously creates desire for the dominion that is Hollywood. (Andréa Picard—TIFF)
