Thursday, March 31, 2005
Presented at:
Market Arcade Film and Art Center
(USA, 90 min., 2004)
Caouette has been documenting his life since he was eleven years old. With TARNATION he makes the most of a psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of 80s pop culture and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family torn apart by dysfunction. Domestic drama, gay self-exploration, and teenage angst all coalesce in this diary film that is more than a sum of its parts. As the film’s executive producer Gus Van Sant says, “there are no longer home movies but movies of the home.”
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