Under Your Skin: Gary Indiana on Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Artforum, Oct. 2006, v. 45, no. 2, pp. 103-104
A discussion on themes of infection, contagion, hypnosis and subversive psychological influence in the films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Characters in the films of Takashi Miike, Shinya Tsukamoto, Yoo Sang-gon, Lee Jong-hyuk, Park Chan-wook and Kurosawa are infected or threatened by the "malignant work" of various supernatural and temporal foe, but the films "themselves '"infect'" one another, collectively depicting an implacable, apocalyptic tendency of the electronic utopia.
ITEM 2006.088 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Cure – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Gary Indiana – Pariah
Ulrike Meinhof – Bambule
Testament of Dr. Mabuse – Fritz Lang
Seance – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Seance on a Wet Afternoon – Kim Stanley-Richard Attenborough
H – Lee Jong-hyuk
Old Boy – Lee Jong-hyuk
Audition – Takashi Miike
Pulse – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Bright Future – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Doppleganger – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Charisma – Kiyoshi Kurosawa