Peggy and Fred in Hell
[ I want to strongly recommend this work by Leslie Thornton - it's on
display in Chelsea. It's one of the strongest videos I've seen and it's up
in an installation context. If you have any chance at all to go into
Chelsea the next week or so, check this out! - Alan ]
Leslie Thornton - Peggy and Fred in Hell
Tuesday, April 27,
Thursday, April 29,
Friday, April 30?
11:50am, 2:40pm, 5:30pm
Wednesday, April 28,
Saturday, May 1
1:10pm, 4:00pm
Sunday, May 2
2:30pm
For more information, please contact Edward Winkleman @ 212.643.3152 or
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Address:
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telephone: 212-643-3152
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 6 PM 28
"Thornton's place in cinema history has already been assured for the sole
reason that she is the author of Peggy and Fred in Hell. Forever
unfinished, Thornton's magnum opus resembles nothing else known in the
cinema."
Cahiers du cinema
culled regrets
[ my life, its behavior, are filled with infinite regrets; i live in the
inescapable wallow. here is the edited / reworked cull from the texts
i've written; it's as if the bandage is temporarily removed, exposing
the wound beneath. ]
"I regret thoroughly the pride and thoughtlessness of my youth, and see
filled with regrets, immobilized, haunted. I have a knack for error,
and the continuation of a lineage of regrets.
whenever I can, sometimes with regrets. But not here.
with death and sorrow, the latter with regrets. There are times I feel I
to regret almost everything in my life, but this everything remains name-
That A---- will tire of my despair, depression, regrets, insomnia, age,
in deed. Everything I do ends with ellipsis and regret.
these regrets, somehow with an incredible / impossible knowledge, so that
do i remember only loss/ finality/ regret/ i/m getting hit/ punctured
My thirty-seventh failure is the inability to feel anything but regret in
and regrets through self-administered therapy.
I regret I am marked with the sign of privilege which is non-existent,
That A---- will tire of my despair, depression, regrets, insomnia, age,
regret my regrets, that's about as dead and dull as it gets... will stop
too many regrets, for me to cope. On the Net, I can leave at least some of
replaces a life of eternal regrets; death no longer stirs him, seems like
The apology for all peoples, which I make, a life of regret. That I am
"He would have regretted this as well." (Epitaph)
He wanted to live through a lifetime of regrets. He wanted to continue
stant regrets. He regretted everything or so much that he became emo-
tionally catatonic. He regretted speaking these words, writing his
epitaph only hours before he died. He would have regretted speaking
these words, would have regretted writing his epitaph only hours before
(I always regret. Is there anything else?)
ASondheim immediately regrets his life!
Did you ever regret you, too, may die someday?
terable loss constantly; my life is filled with regrets as far back as i
do i remember only loss/ finality/ regret/ i/m getting hit/ punctured
provocation; far too many regrets; I think I should explain I have severe
regrets over so much I wouldn't be able to tally them - a lost notebook
o gods i regret everything! i would return everything!
o gods i regret!
shame. my machines do not say regret every day. my machines empty me into
8 in "harsh-beating theory" i have much to regret
9 of this entire life regrets are ragged i am in the worst
myself i have everything to regret"; crimes; STOP
self-discredit; serves has what your past been "for myself i have regret";
You can't understand what my regrets are, the sad story of losing my
errors and infinite regrets. if this sounds different at all it isn't by
his final words: "I regret
he said: 'My only regret
are always incriminating, my regrets which begin at birth, my guilt
enough delicate regret condition effect excessive pression coming close
notwithstanding whom regret
between regretting forbid
regrets back
can't regrets
regrets getting
My thirty-seventh failure is the inability to feel anything but regret in
and regrets through self-administered therapy.
machines do not say shame shame shame. my machines do not say regret every
shame. my machines do not say regret every day. my machines empty me into
A immediately regrets his life!
with infinite regret, with the world undone -
That A---- will tire of my despair, depression, regrets, insomnia, age,
regret my regrets, that's about as dead and dull as it gets... will stop
replaces a life of eternal regrets; death no longer stirs him, seems like
otherwise!", "%n yells at %d and immediately regrets it; %n is sorrowful.",
-- when i live a life of absolute and permanent regret
or optical for that _matter._ Here one is safe with one's regrets and
My thirty-seventh failure is the inability to feel anything but regret in
and regrets through self-administered therapy.
- with infinite regret, with the world undone -
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2 honorary improvisations with related tonal centers
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/modern3.mp3 d-a-e
http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/modern4.mp3 d-a-d
different tunings w/ octaves at 4th and 5th