https://www.cynephile.com/2010/01/omer-fast-is-the-next-steve-mcqueen/ "The cinema is cruel like a miracle." -Frank O'Hara Sat, 06 Aug 2016 14:14:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 https://www.cynephile.com/2010/01/omer-fast-is-the-next-steve-mcqueen/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:03:54 +0000 http://www.cynephile.com/?p=136#comment-6 I had a different reaction to the Whitney installation, which I liked a lot less than his piece in the Biennial: the further I got into the piece, the less I liked it. Unless the third, quasi-cinematic episode is meant as one more reflexive turn – not back on the infrastructure of production, as in THE CASTING, or his “suicide bomber” piece at Postmasters, but back on the infrastructure of the museum world and its aspirations to mass audiences, drawn in through panderings to celebrity and Hollywood culture – it seemed to me to dilute the quite interesting tension between the first Nostalgia piece and the second. Another HUNGER would be nice, but the 30 minute section of Nostalgia made me think we’d get another RENDITION (another lousy American feature by a very skilled young director).

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