Neon just dropped the above... poster...s... for the upcoming gay horror film
Leviticus -- since it's a gif of two images I'm not sure what to call it. I've seen the phrase "motion poster" before so I suppose that fits. Anyway they're both great images, and supposedly we're getting a trailer tomorrow (the movie is out on June 19th) but, unlike the trailer for the new
Evil Dead movie that I just
posted, I doubt I will share the one for
Leviticus. Because I've seen
Leviticus -- I posted about it
about a month ago, that it was playing the "New Directors" fest here in NYC -- and I am one hundred percent certain y'all should go into this movie as cold as possible, like I did. I've really been wanting to write up my thoughts on the film, which are myriad and emotional, but I've hesitated for a couple of factors.
One is that I'm not sure I can write about it without talking about everything going on with it, but honestly that's not been the main issue. The other is that, and I don't think this will surprise any of you who've been here lately, I've really had some writer's block bogging me down over the past several months. I've felt like it's had to be super obvious to any of you visiting -- I've really been operating on auto-pilot lately, and I need to get myself out of this funk. Especially if I'm going to write about a movie like
Leviticus, which moved me in some profound and extremely personal ways. So if anybody has any words of encouragement I wouldn't hate to hear them, is what I'm saying -- the thing is that I'm hardly alone in feeling broken by the world these days, and I guess that's what's sort of kept me clammed up about it. It's been very much
the preacher's funeral sermon in Synechdoche New York -- "Maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery because they have their own." It all feels redundant and obvious and in turn pointless and it cycles, and cycles. Hopefully I can dig myself out of this grave and do better! Understatement! Anyway here's some video I took of
Leviticus director Adrian Chiarella introducing the movie at MoMA a couple of weeks back; he really speaks beautifully:
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I love your writing! Take care of yourself, dont rush writing, focus on doing nice things for yourself. The writing will come back! Also, radicalize yourself, read marx, read lenin, read losurdo, gramci, study comunism
"Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear." — Lao Tzu
i’m spinning this as a positive- when the blockage clears [and it will] your writing talent will gush like an teenager being intimate with a peach
take good care of yourself in the meantime
Hang in there. Can't wait to see the film and read your thoughts
I'd suggest it's exactly because of this situation that you should write all the more. But perhaps take some time to write for yourself and express something you want to write about, or how you feel about everything and sundry, not just work. Self expression and all. They seem to hate the queer arts especially, so making our art is a form of rebellion!
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