Live cinema artists
Potter-Belmar Labs remix, re-edit, and reconsider Vilgot
Sjöman's controversial 1967 films, I Am Curious
(Yellow) and I Am Curious
(Blue), through a live cinema performance the
duo debuted at the Heights Theater in Houston in September 2010. The
same theater was gutted by fire in 1969 by arsonists protesting I Am
Curious (Yellow)'s alleged obscenity.
PBL's performance expands on the
films' kaleidoscopic, multilayered nature, exploring the films' themes
of sexuality and politics as well as the context of the broader
censorship movement of the age and the phenomenon of reactionary
violence in our own time.
Commissioned for and premiered during Aurora
Picture Show's Media Archeology festival, September 2010.