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Flaubert dreams of travel but the illness of his mother prevents it

Title
Flaubert dreams of travel but the illness of his mother prevents it [videorecording] / Ken Kobland; a Wooster Group Production.
Publication
New York : Ken Kobland, 1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Kobland, Ken.
  • Wooster Group.
Description
1 videocassette (20 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
The Wooster Group performs a short dramatic fantasy about a touring acting company holed up in a hotel and preparing to perform The Temptation of St. Anthony, by Gustave Flaubert. It is also an imaginary combining of the biographical/bourgeois Flaubert with Flaubert the Sexually Obsessive and Morbidly Curious, who longs for the spiritual and the exotic. The piece was photographed in a hotel room in Washington D.C. in 16mm negative film and transferred to one inch video for editing. It draws much of its imagery from horror and surrealistic film forms. The soundtrack encompasses Salsa, Elvis, and the Red Army Chorus.
Subject
Credits (note)
  • Director, Ken Kobland.
Performer (note)
  • Willem Dafoe, Anna Kohler, Nancy Reilly, Peyton Smith, Irma St. Paule, Jeff Webster, Kate Valk, Ron Vawter.
Title
Flaubert dreams of travel but the illness of his mother prevents it [videorecording] / Ken Kobland; a Wooster Group Production.
Imprint
New York : Ken Kobland, 1986.
Credits
Director, Ken Kobland.
Cast
Willem Dafoe, Anna Kohler, Nancy Reilly, Peyton Smith, Irma St. Paule, Jeff Webster, Kate Valk, Ron Vawter.
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Kobland, Ken.
Wooster Group.
Branch Call Number
VTH 365 F
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