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In the first collaborative residency, Emily Wardill and Oscar
Carlson screen One Camp Film and one Film About Camping.
Mommie Dearest (Dir. Perry 1981) and Nuts in May
(Dir. Leigh 1976) are simultaneously projected on either side
of the Caribic bar. The space is transformed by a borderless
division with two viewing halves. On one side camping in the
English countryside, a bleak yet humorous satire of middle-class
manners and attitudes and on the other is the very model of
modern camp classic. Mommie Dearest terrorizes her
adopted children in myriad ways, serving a bizarre mixture of
melodramatic trash and outrageous tragic-comedy. Both films
play in unison with the audio fighting for dominance and the
visual confusion as you catch a glimpse of Mommie screaming
No more hangers whilst sitting around the camp fire.
We are then thankfully treated to chocolate bananas served from
the bar, creating a strangely appropriate link between the films. |
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