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Willie and Brewsie
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Willie and Brewsie presents itself, in 12 minutes, as something of a puzzle: what is the relationship between the snatched, mordant, precarious images of discarded Americana (numbered doors, trash, roads and fields) and the text, printed as intertitles on a pink screen? And what is this text, exactly? A transcribed or imagined conversation between two average Americans of today, patriotic yet disenchanted, concerned yet spaced-out? In fact, it is a 1946 text by Gertrude Stein from a novella titled Brewsie and Willie. Cynthia Madansky (aided by superb music from Zeena Parkins) brings out its complete relevance to the Age of Trump – and the hallucinatory, brutal distortions created in ordinary, everyday lives. © Adrian Martin September 2018 |
