Artist John Russell has created a work in the November issue of ArtReview that serves as a kind of trailer for this video, a 'drawn film' that is 'retro-coded backwards from the end', unravelling in reverse. Not a sacrifice but a prophesy: immediate, infinite, ecstatic...
VERMILLION VORTEX
A John Russell film
Credits
Primary soundtrack
Music: Rose Kallal
Spoken word: Mark Beasley
Voices: Katie Barrington, Marnie Watts, Maria Deegan & John Russell
Sound engineer: Bob Geal
Special bonus track (after 'The End'): 'Strychnine Motive' (2011), by Gum Takes Tooth
I just woke up in my studio in brooklyn after having a dream about being in a commune downstairs with hundreds of other happy artists then i watched this and now i feel a bit weird.
ephrain4 1 year ago