2050 Imperial St. Los Angeles, CA 90021
Cara Benedetto, Coco Klockner, Liang Luscombe, and Courtney Mackedanz
Leave uses puppetry to explore representations of Caucasian women and drunkenness in film and television. The stumbling woman, made famous in films and TV shows such as Fatal Attraction, Fleabag, Killing Eve, and Single Drunk Female, is introduced face down on the carpet at the end of the night, surrounded by bottles and beer cans. She appears as a part-human-part-puppet character trying to piece together the night before. Combining a series of poetic and directorial voiceovers, subtitles, and text messages, Leave explores the erotics of the relationship between puppeteer and puppet, showing the way the puppeteer supports and manipulates the puppet to ask questions about agency and intoxication within the body horror genre.
Join creators Cara Benedetto, Coco Klockner, Liang Luscombe, and performer Courtney Mackedanz for a night of screening and performance.
Please RSVP to
rsvp@nightgallery.ca.