Sunshine Cinema
Midnight Screenings
April 24 - June 13
Using the strategy of movie advertising, Marilyn Minter and I created a 60-second trailer which will be screened before midnight showings in conjunction with her solo exhibition Green Pink Caviar (2009), at Salon 94. A continuing exploration of blurring boundaries, this trailer continues a trajectory that began in 1989 when she bought 30-second commercial slots on David Letterman, Arsenio Hall, and a Nightline with Ted Koppel to advertise her exhibition, Food Porn Commercials, as well as her 2006 billboard series which accompanied the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
Photographer Clive Booth asked me to get involved in a project he was doing with fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic. Clive had documented four consecutive fashion shows for Roksanda at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK, on the new Canon 5D MkII in HD video.
I like Clive’s open-aperture, shallow-depth-of-field style. The footage was something I really needed to absorb; there was a lot of it. This needed an imaginative concept to pull it together. Again, I found myself with a lot of freedom to create what I wanted. Roksanda’s strong features and glaring eyes made me dream of magical, emotional, breathless moments. It ended up being a little less about the event and more about textures, color, emotion and dreams.
As silly as it may sound, in the footage I saw an angel of light showering beautiful girls in color before releasing them into the world anew.
M.A.C Creative Director, James Gager, requested I create a couple of videos about their upcoming collections.
Both beautiful and edgy, A Rose Romance was a mix of motion graphics, archival footage, photos, video and music. Floating flowers and risky thorns. Thorns! More thorns!
Style Warrior struck a very different tone with quotes from style icons, primitive images, tribal drums and amazing makeup. A fast-paced montage of imagery with a message… “Are you a style warrior?”
Both videos celebrated the direction M.A.C is headed and their desire to inspire makeup artists to push the limits. Massive project support from Gang of M.A.C – Loann Lam, Laren Stover, Cindy Carrandi and Toni Lakis.
“A true warrior leaves the house and feels absolutely normal” – Lynn Yaeger
Today, it really felt like spring had finally arrived. When I shot this commercial, I remember floating in fabric and dreaming of spring as winter was setting in. I focused on color, texture, movement and flow. I love things that feel timeless and, to me, spring is a season of timeless memories. It’s a season that can be kaleidoscopic and dreamlike. At least that is how I remember it.
This commercial is part of a photo and video campaign for fashion designer Heike Jarick’s Spring 2009 collection.
Fantasticals was a photo/video collaboration with British photographer Clive Booth for M.A.C cosmetics. Natural light blasted through the big windows in the massive pier 59 studios as we documented these makeup artists transforming their subjects. We roamed freely around the set. It was an open, enjoyable, creative environment. I had the pleasure of hiring Omar Jon Ajluni to compose the music.
The M.A.C Cosmetics team; James Gager (CD), Toni Lakis, Loann Lam and Cindy Carrandi are all very cool. They gave me a lot of freedom to create this fantastical video.
I created an in-store animated loop made of gems and composite kitties for the grand opening of the Sanrio Luxe Store on 42nd st. The loop was a secret unveiling of the new M.A.C Cosmetics Hello Kitty collection.
I got a mention in Time Out’s interview with Marilyn Minter about Green Pink Caviar. Thanks MM!
You have a show coming up at Salon 94, as well as a video project in Times Square for Creative Time, for which you’ve created a trailer. What’s that about?
While I was taking photos for paintings, my makeup artist Regina Harris picked up my 10-year-old digital camera and started shooting me shooting. And it looked so good that we decided to hire a professional, Austin Lynn Austin, to make a video out of it. This is going up in Times Square and also in a couple of museum shows. I always see movie trailers, and think, I’d love to make an ad for a show! So we made one. It’s going to be showing at the Sunshine theater on Houston Street. Austin is used to shooting MAC products, so I knew he’d be able to do this. We edited it together, actually. We’re trying to get it into theaters in L.A., but they don’t understand it. They’re like, “What do you mean you have a trailer, but not for a movie?!?” They can’t wrap their brains around it.
full interview > HERE
I’ve known photographer Berry Behrendt and makeup artist Sonja Roberts for several years. We met under odd circumstances in Hamburg circa 1995. It was a great time full of late nights, fantastic food, fascinating conversations and wonderful company. About a year ago at a bar in Tribeca, Berry and I reconnected. We spoke about several of the things we could do together. They Are Like Us But Better was our first endeavor. The concept was simple, bring some creative people together and see what we come up with.
It was fun transforming young Kelsea into a hot, sexy human from the neo-gothic underworld. Her face has a wonderful balance between feminine and masculine and Sonja’s makeup took it too both places. I recall realizing while shooting, that we were all working in this wonderful creative zone. Flow, balance and freedom surrounded us and rewarded us with a cool video and photo story.
Our creative team:
Stylist – VAVA
Hair – Marco Testa
Makeup – Sonja Roberts
Model – Kelsea Tuttle
Remix - Yasuda
It was a wonderful day for a photo session. The Fearsome Sparrow broke the ice on my new place in the East Village shooting press photos for their upcoming EP. This was the first time I pointed a lens at them since last summer.
“I think anything that gets wet… starts getting sexy”. She says in an interview on 27th street in April.
She makes me smile. When I think of Marilyn, I think of tripping over things, new discoveries, lush details and grotesquely beautiful glamour. That is her. And in a strange mix of circumstance I managed to be in the fortunate position of capturing her GreenPinkCaviar.
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GREENPINKCAVIAR
- is currently showing through April on TIMES SQUARE, NYC at 441/2
By Marilyn Minter
Shot and Edited by Austin Lynn Austin
Music by J. Ralph
Models Cinthia Diker, Lousia Taadou
GREENPINKCAVIAR.COM
TimeOut New York
TIMES SQUARE SCREENING TIMES
Monday-Friday: Each video will be shown at the top of the hour, every hour.
Saturday-Sunday: All three videos will be shown back to back at 12 pm and 3 pm. All other hours follow the weekday rotation.
Subject to change… of course.
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MARILYN MINTER
Upcoming projects include: a solo exhibition at Regen Projects in fall 2009 in conjunction with a public art project presented with ForYourArt. In September, both the Zaha Hadid designed Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and the newly opened contemporary art space ‘La Conservera’ in Murcia, Spain will present installations of Minter’s work, which will include include large scale projections of the eight minute version of Green Pink Caviar.
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