![]() And now, forever in thread.ĮXCERPTS from INTERVIEW with AUBREY LONGLEY-COOK, September 26, 2022. Stars are born, stars fall, and in between they’re captured on film. The brighter the sun, the longer the shadows. Whose stories and characters become a part of our own lives and attempts to make sense of them. An incubator, originator, and producer of dreams, pumping out a currency of images as fast as exhaust fumes. (Or at least, it doesn’t show them to the camera.) A vast city that can never be fully known, but is also the most known city in the world. Building a complicated, corrupt yet fascinating legacy over the next 100 years, today LA is still the preeminent city of the screen, a city that has no bad angles. ![]() ‘Hollywood’ was founded by artists drawn by the blue skies and golden sunshine necessary to effectively expose film stock, with the very first studios set up in the 19-teens. And he’s found his muse just outside his door. Longley-Cook is here to revise all that, smashing paradigms about by whom and how his craft can be employed. For his second solo exhibition at The Lodge Gallery, Longley-Cook selects, rewinds and slows down our shared cinematic memories, putting hours of effort into creating one textured capture from the millions of frames that make up a movie.įilm is perhaps the most collaborative artform, and while the finer arts have the longest history in human civilization, needlepoint and embroidery are perhaps the least, synonymous with monks, abbots, solitudinarians and lonely prairie mothers. Meticulously designed, plotted, and executed, what you see around you is the culmination of over two years of work, all sewn over the fractious years of uncertainty that were 2020-2022. Longley-Cook’s encyclopedic knowledge of, and fervent interest in, film culture informs each and every stitch. The 13 original panels in the FILM STUDIES series are drawn from 13 movies filmed on location in Los Angeles and Southern California. A graduate of the RISD Film/Animation/Video program (BFA 2007) he simultaneously developed his own embroidery practice, coming to find cross stitch to be a key expressive metier. 1985 Hartford, Connecticut) moved to Los Angeles from Atlanta in 2016. Gloria Beatty once wanted to be a star, but without hope, she’s given herself over to a frantic, endless dance macabre, dragging her partner Robert down with her into the undertow.Īre these your own memories - or are they from a movie? There’s no way to know, anymore.Īrtist Aubrey Longley-Cook (b. Unknown actress Faye Tucker would kill to be closer to the klieg lights Tod witnesses her ambition destroy all she touches, including herself. Inside a mansion on the 10000 block of Sunset Boulevard, before Joe ends up floating in her pool, he watches old movies with Norma and her lithe young self flickers on the screen. ![]() Robbed while he's trimming a privileged palm tree, Carlos realizes he can’t trust anyone as he and his son cross the city searching for his stolen gardening truck. Justice and Lucky are also dwelling on their loved ones’ too-early deaths as they drive the PCH coastal roads in a postal van, learning to trust each other, slowly. Looking to the East past the Hollywood sign, stands Griffith Observatory, as an ambulance takes out the body of young Plato, wearing Jim Stark’s red jacket, shot by police as he tried to surrender. Driving by, you catch Ana steaming the dresses sewn at her sister Estela’s Downtown LA sweatshop, and sweep past Alexandra and Sin-Dee as they hustle and flow up and down the streets of West Hollywood. Leaving Beverly Hills, you go search the seedy side of the city with Easy, trying to find the mysterious woman in the blue dress. ![]() At the lights, you pull up alongside Cher Horowitz and the Nowhere gang Dark, Mel, and Lucifer, and tell a friend to jump in. Now you’re out on the road, it morphs into the red 1965 Ford Mustang coupe of Han Lue, just before he was fast and furious. later, you sneak out, jumping into your red 1966 Alfa Romeo Duetto Spider convertible without even opening the door. You try to get out of the pool, but your dad’s hand is on the visor, pushing you back in. It's hard to walk in your long flippers, and you feel suffocated by the thick black rubber mask. You get changed in the pool house, with your everyone waiting outside to see you. You had just arrived home from college and for your birthday, your father gifted you a scuba diving suit. The sound you hear is the landing gear locking into place. PILOT: (loudspeaker) Ladies and gentlemen, we are about to begin our descent into Los Angeles. PULL BACK to see that he is seated on a crowded airplane. CU: The face of BEN, a young man in his early 20s.
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