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Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside) (1997)

ALL 08/01/1997 (en) Music 4 Min
  • Release
    08/01/1997
  • Production
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  • Original title
    Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)
  • Original language
    en
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Overview

Deemed "too ambient for broadcast" by MTV's AMP, Thaemlitz' first video "Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)" contrasts cinematic footage from drag performances in upstate New York with highly processed digital audio from his CD "Couture Cosmetique" (US: Caipirinha/Japan: Daisyworld, 1997). Thaemlitz is known for his fusion of computer synthesis techniques with non-essentialist transgenderism as two methodoligies which appropriate and critically recontextualize cultural signifiers, whether they be audio sources or gender constructs. The audio for "Silent Passability" deals with fears of violence while travelling in 'passable' drag between safe zones, and Thaemlitz' unsettling compulsion to remain silent in such circumstances so as to avoid confrontation. Antithetically beatific images from the transgendered stage question posturing as a means for alieviating and/or concealing such oppressive circumstances.

  1. Terre Thaemlitz

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Terre Thaemlitz

    Producer



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Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside) (1997) 4 Min

ALL 08/01/1997 (en)
Music
  • Release 08/01/1997
  • Production
  • Original title Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Deemed "too ambient for broadcast" by MTV's AMP, Thaemlitz' first video "Silent Passability (Ride to the Countryside)" contrasts cinematic footage from drag performances in upstate New York with highly processed digital audio from his CD "Couture Cosmetique" (US: Caipirinha/Japan: Daisyworld, 1997). Thaemlitz is known for his fusion of computer synthesis techniques with non-essentialist transgenderism as two methodoligies which appropriate and critically recontextualize cultural signifiers, whether they be audio sources or gender constructs. The audio for "Silent Passability" deals with fears of violence while travelling in 'passable' drag between safe zones, and Thaemlitz' unsettling compulsion to remain silent in such circumstances so as to avoid confrontation. Antithetically beatific images from the transgendered stage question posturing as a means for alieviating and/or concealing such oppressive circumstances.

  1. Terre Thaemlitz

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Terre Thaemlitz

    Editor

  4. Terre Thaemlitz

    Producer



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