Interstices / Silent Passability

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Album Info

Release Date: 2005

Label: Comatonse Recordings

Queer-Media-Series
Number 1b
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Terre Thaemlitz
Interstices
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Video translations from the album INTERSTICES
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With bonus feature
SILENT PASSABILITY (RIDE TO THE COUNTRYSIDE)
Video from the album COUTURE COSMETIQUE
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\\VER D 000 NTSC

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Interstices
(Originally released as VHS V.001, 2001)


Silent Passability (Ride To The Countryside)
Originally released as VHS V.000, 1997)

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D.000.NTSC
Color (23 Minutes) HiFi-Stereo NTSC DVD-R | ©2005



INTERSTICES
Featuring music by: Terre Thaemlitz | Taken from the album: Interstices | Time: 00:18:00 | 2001
Produced by Comatonse Recordings at Meow Studio, Kawasaki 12.2000 and Lovebytes, Sheffield 03.2001

"INTERSTICES n (pl.) small gaps or spaces between objects"

There's "no experience required" to enjoy Interstices' "easier" format. Terre Thaemlitz adapts selected music, text and images from his CD "Interstices" (Germany: Mille Plateaux, 2000) into a video that makes reading fun. Candidly investigate the interstices between genders, sexual orientations, and other identity constructs. Intersexual birth, surgical gender reassignment, sex acts, and transsexual job opportunities are among the topics processed through filters of private and public expectation. Featuring the titles (in alphabetical order):

ENTRE L'ACTION ET LE DEUIL.005 "she inquired if elective surgery allows her to inhabit a suspended state of transition"

SYSTOLE.006 "produced by comatonse recordings… commissioned by lovebytes and funded by the national lottery through the arts council of england"

SYSTOLE.008 "jobs availble… inquire within”

SYSTOLE.011 "she sought to occupy the gaps between black and white… but an image gradually took form in the greys between"

THERE WAS A GIRL/THERE WAS A BOY.ANALSEX "i don't want to hurt you… i want you to feel good"

THERE WAS A GIRL/THERE WAS A BOY.DECLAMATION "there was a girl... there was a boy"

THERE WAS A GIRL/THERE WAS A BOY.INTERSEX "the doctors said it's easier to poke a hole than build a pole"

THERE WAS A GIRL/THERE WAS A BOY.WENDY (15 MINUTES OF SHAME) "can she escape the horrors of a life as the jock next door
and the girly next door…?"

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SILENT PASSABILITY (RIDE TO THE COUNTRYSIDE)
Featuring music by: Terre Thaemlitz I Taken from the album: Couture Cosmetique | Time: 00:04:00 | 1997
Starring: Lady Jane Fairchild (1997 Miss Upstate NY), Darienne Lake, Aggy Dune, Pandora Box, Heather Sky
Production, film & editing: Terre Thaemlitz

Deemed "too ambient for broadcast by MTV's AMP, Thaemlitz' first video "Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)" contrasts cinematic footage from drag performances in upstate New York with highly processed digital audio from his CD "Couture Cosmetique" (US:Caipirinha/Japan: Daisyworld, 1997). Thaemlitz is known for his fusion of computer synthesis techniques with non-essentialist transgenderism as two methodoligies wich appropriate and critically recontextualize cultural signifiers, whether they be audio sources or gender constructs. The audio for "Silent Passability" deals with fears of violence while travelling in 'passable' drag between safe zones, and Thaemlitz' unsettling compulsion to remain silent in such circumstances so as to avoid confrontation. Antithetically beatific images from the transgendered stage question posturing as a means for alieviating and/or concealing such oppressive circumstances

DVD-R, NTSC, Region Free