James Krell

Filmed in 1983 in New York at Pier 34, this film takes place at an abandoned storehouse which was left at the mercy of the elements and open to anonymous homosexual encounters and to having its walls covered with gigantic frescos by underground artists. This place breathed transgression, desire, danger.

For yet another film, All Area (1978), Krell shot the shadow of a curtain on the floor of his New York loft for 30 minutes with ancient black and white Portapack ½” video equipment, then remastered the material on negative film stock with a professional film chain to achieve astonishing results in contrast, frame sizing, and the arbitrary duration of this reductive image.

GHOST DANCE LOTS OF FLARES THE BODY OF A WOMAN identified as lies under a blanket on fogs of san fran. small bits – J. K.

Ilike to go to oregon hills/ Iroll down with my arms because/ Iwant to go slower/ Iam scared. –J. K.

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For his film Finally A Lamb, completed in 1976, Krell documented a performance piece by the German artist Hermann Nitsch of the Orgies/Mysteries Theater, which took place at Douglass College in the early 1970s, in which a dead sheep’s carcass was disemboweled in front of a stunned audience.

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Sweeten offerings to the gods/ i thought everyone was honesty/ but they were a result of mirror/ meat/ a l a r g e r e d flash/ A –J. K.

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Monument of the bay easter/ gail sits in the crease for two days/ refusing drink or food/ angels arrive and reveal she is a glorious bum/ ALTHOUGH IT WAS L(1965)arry –J. K.

Sweeten offering to the god/ everyone thought i was beauty/ but it was the result of mirror/ bread/ alargegreeb spotlite. –J. K.

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