Mary Kuryla
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Embodied Teaching
The notorious 1964 film Scorpio Rising opens on a tangle of metal, pieces from a disassembled motorcycle, and a young man tinkering with the detritus in a garage. Ricky Nelson sings “Fools Rush In” on the soundtrack as the camera pans lovingly over rugged boots, bulky links of chain, and then down over the back of a leather jacket with the film’s title and director’s name — Kenneth Anger — written in shiny studs. The man wearing the jacket spins around, and we’re suddenly up close both to his crotch and the soft naked skin of his belly. I was […]
by Holly Willis on Oct 20, 2016 -
GET YOUR FREAK ON
Mary Kuryla sent an email saying that it’s the last weekend for her indie feature Freak Weather at New York’s Pioneer Theater — fans of transgressive feminist portrayals of what Village Voice critic C. Carr once dubbed “the unsocialized woman” should check out this hard-edged film. Here’s what Kuryla herself wrote about her pic: FREAK WEATHER seems to finally have come into its own. The film’s punk sensibilities and irreverent, self-destructive protagonist, PENNY, strikes a chord with viewers in their twenties, in particular. Penny seems to express their own ambivalence toward the responsibility of parenting and ownership. Her foolhardiness in […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 4, 2005
