Palace of Pleasure
John Hofsess’s The Palace of Pleasure emerged from the psychedelic haze of 1960s postmodern art. It was a blistering work that combined arresting abstract imagery with the wounded expressions of a young couple, edited into a collage of mass culture imagery and album and book jackets, all of it framed as a therapeutic treatment. Addressed to a generation coming up in an era of protest and social change, where many found themselves increasingly burdened with hopelessness, paranoia, and neurosis, The Palace of Pleasure was offered as a cleansing ritual, a post-Freudian expelling of dammed-up energies that anticipated The Primal Scream. In this video, Stephen Broomer discusses Hofsess’s therapeutic ambitions, how the film was composed of Hofsess’s earlier films, and the sensual spell of the work, the way in which it commands us to enter into a universal fellowship of touch that circulates, from us to us, through us, to strain the boundaries between the self and the other.
Year: 1967
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Director: John Hofsess
Cast: Patricia Murphy, Norman Walker, Michaele-Sue Goldblatt, David Martin, David Hollings, Don Gouthrou
Crew: Peter Rowe (Director of Photography), Willem Poolman (Producer), John Hofsess (Director of Photography), John Hofsess (Director), Robin Hilborn (Special Effects)
Runtime: 38 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1967
IMDb: 7.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Canada
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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