Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley's Permanent Green Light (2018) is showing July 19 – August 17, 2019 on Mubi in the United States.Permanent Green Light was inspired by our fascination with the phenomenon of inexplicable deaths—demises whose circumstances and/or causes are so mysterious and incongruous that their surrounding factors attain the power to override the death's emotional and psychological impact—where the victim's passing becomes obscured by the lack of a rational explanation and is transformed into an act of magic.In Permanent Green Light, the protagonist Roman is in his late teens, physically disabled due to a recent accident, introverted and eccentric but happy and interested in his life. He becomes obsessed with how, when an apartment building collapses, presumably with inhabitants inside, or when a ship full of passengers sinks, the deaths of those inside become so complicated to parse emotionally that they're more advantageously interpreted as power sources for the event's charismatic,...
- 7/10/2019
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Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley's Permanent Green Light (2018) is showing July 19 – August 17, 2019 on Mubi in the United States.Dennis Cooper, Zac's Control Panel (Gif Novel)“The novelist Dennis Cooper has always made other gay writers nervous,” film director John Waters begins in praise of the author and in particular, Cooper’s novel, The Sluts, which Waters would list as one of his all-time favorite books. A critical collection of other writers and scholars on Cooper was called Enter at Your Own Risk: The Dangerous Art by Dennis Cooper, edited together by Leora Lev back in 2006, where Cooper was posited as “the most controversial writer working today.” His works, a writing career that dates back to the 1970s, have been seized at the United States-Canada border, banned, and then later published in a compilation of banned works of literature in Canada. He has had numerous censorship run-ins with Google, which...
- 7/10/2019
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