The Dark, Krystle

10 min / SD / 2013
The cabin is on fire!  Krystle can't stop crying, Alexis won't stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again.
 
Michael Robinson 2013 / 09:34 The cabin is on fire! Krystle can't stop crying, Alexis won't stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again. WINNER: Best Experimental Film, Melbourne International FF 2014 WINNER: Best of Festival, EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul 2014 Dirty Looks NYC article by Kevin Kilian: http://www.poisonberries.net/killianTDK.pdf Out 1 Film Journal review by James Hansen: http://www.out1filmjournal.com/2013/11/exhausting-tomorrow-michael-robinsons.html Irish Times review by Aidan Dunn: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/michael-robinson-s-rha-exhibition-feels-like-the-future-1.4105980 Totally Dublin review and interview by Jack O’Higgins: https://www.totallydublin.ie/arts-culture/artsdesk-under-the-wrong-star-michael-robinson/ Included on Jonathan Marlow's best of 2013 list, for Keyframe/Fandor: http://www.fandor.com/blog/the-absolute-best-and-worst-of-nearly-everything-mmxiii ArtInfo review bu Craig Hubert: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1009871/michael-robinsons-the-dark-krystle-in-chicago Little Joe interview by Bradford Nordeen: https://littlejoemagazine.bigcartel.com/product/little-joe-no-5 Screenings: 2013 New York Film Festival: Views From the Avant-Garde, New York, NY DINCA Vision Quest FF, Chicago, IL 2014 Oberhausen International Short FF, Germany Viennale: The Vienna International FF, Austria BFI London FF: Experimenta, London, UK EXiS Experimental FF, Seoul, South Korea Melbourne International FF, Australia Outfest LGBT FF: Platinum Program, Los Angeles, CA Les Rencontres International, Paris, France Ann Arbor FF, and 2014 Festival Tour, Ann Arbor, MI Bucharest International Experimental FF, Romania Pleasure Dome: Collectif Jeune Cinéma program, Toronto, ON International Short FF Winterthur, Switzerland Fringe! Queer Art and FF, London Janela Internacional de Cinema do Recife, Brazil Antimatter Media Art Festival, Victoria, BC Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, QC Q-Fest International GLBTQ FF, Houston, TX Pleasure Dome: Dirty Looks NYC program, Toronto, ON Dutch Electronic Arts Festival (D.E.A.F.), Rotterdam Milwaukee Underground FF, WI Chicago Underground FF, Chicago IL Big Muddy FF, Carbondale, IL Dirty Looks NYC at the Spectrum, Brooklyn, NY 2015 National Gallery of Art, “Selections from Oberhausen”, Washington DC Whitechapel Gallery, “Stateland” group program, London UK FABRICA, “Stateland” group program, Brighton UK Phoenix, “Stateland” group program, Leicester UK Electric Palace, “Stateland” group program, Hastings UK Aspex Gallery, “Stateland” group program, Portsmouth UK Channels: The Australian Video Art Festival, Melbourne, Australia Shadow Electric, shown preceding Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Melbourne, Australia ACRE TV, “Tele Novela” online streaming group program Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary Playtime Audiovisuales, Laida Lertxundi - Landscape Plus group program, Madrid, Spain Playtime Audiovisuales, A New Message, Fondacion Felefonico, Madrid, Spain Kinemastik International Short FF, Floriana, Malta Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany La Videoshop, opening group screening, Paris, France Xposed International Queer FF, Berlin, Germany Queer City Cinema International Short FF, Regina, SK, Canada Wiz-Art: Lviv Int. Short FF, Lviv, Ukraine Live to Tape Artist Television Fest, Links Hall, Chicago, IL Athens International Film and Video Fest, Athens, OH Cine FestiVal, Vale do Jaguaribe, Brazil Gowanathon III: Gowanus Experimental Film Fest, Brooklyn NY Glasgow Short FF, Scotland UK Dallas Medianale, Dallas TX FLEX Florida Experimental Film and Video Fest, Gainesville FL 2016 International FF Rotterdam, Netherlands November FF, Goldsmiths, London, UK Ispwich Art Gallery, “Projected States” group program, Ispwich, Australia Queer Porto International FF, Porto, Portugal Speed Museum, Opening Celebration group program, Louisville, KY Cinema Project, “Dirty Looks: First Three Years” group program, Portland, OR 2019 University of Queensland Art Museum, “Preparation Rituals”, Brisbane, Australia Block Museum of Art, “Technology Transformations: A Feminist History of the Supercut”, Evanston, IL Exhibitions: 2014 City Gallery Wellington “Michael Robinson: The Dark, Krystle” (solo show), Wellington, New Zealand Carrie Secrist Gallery, “The Dark, Krystle” (solo show) Chicago IL EXPO VIDEO at EXPO CHICAGO (group show) Chicago, IL Handwerker Gallery “Letters to Our Former Selves” (group show) Ithaca NY Dallas Art Fair (group show by Carrie Secrist Gallery) Dallas, TX 2015 Atelie367, “Dirty Looks NYC” (group show) San Paolo, Brazil Flint Institute of Arts “The Dark Krystle” (solo show) Flint MI Johnson Museum of Art “Locally Sourced” (group show) Ithaca NY 2018 Somerset House Studios, TBCTV (group show), London UK 2019 RHA, “Michael Robinson: Under
“The Dark, Krystle" repurposes the artificiality of stock gesture, underscoring its hollowness whilst recharging it with new emotional power. The film rekindles the unfinished business of identity, gender, consumption, and excess in 1980’s America via the hugely popular soap opera, “Dynasty”.

Press:

ARTINFO review

OUT 1 FILM JOURNAL essay

4:3 interview

THE IRISH TIMES review

TOTALLY DUBLIN review

LITTLE JOE interview

DIRTY LOOKS essay

FILM COMMENT review

D MAGAZINE review

LUCID DREAMING interview

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM - 2014 Melbourne Int'l Film Festival
BEST OF FESTIVAL - 2014 EXiS Festival, Seoul
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