Donigan Cumming Videoworks: Volume 2
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Collection: Single Artist Compilations
Tags: Health, Memory, Mental Landscape, Performance, Portrait, Videoworks
In these two videos, Cumming investigates the worlds of a pair of abject heroes, Colin and Pierre, one a recovering alcoholic, the other an addict. One talks angrily about his former addiction and of the sacrifices he made for the “romance” of a life on the street. The other has lost everything in the name of love, and now tells the tale in a manner both tragic and comedic.
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Donigan Cumming’s improvisational style traverses the boundaries of tragedy and comedy, drama and documentation. In After Brenda, Cumming redefines the genre of popular romance. His abject hero is Pierre, a fifty-something male who has...
Collection: Single Titles Tags: diary, health, psychoanalysis |
"I'm not finished. I don't know how long it's going to take. As far as I'm concerned I'm officially dead." In his 50th year, Colin looks back on a life of drug and alcohol abuse. Four years into recovery, he is angry and articulate about...
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