Thursday, March 1, 2012
Turning: a transgender love song by Antony Hegarty and Charles Atlas
http://www.xtra.ca/blog/halifax/post/2012/03/01/Turning-a-transgender-love-song-by-Antony-Hegarty-and-Charles-Atla.aspx (http://www.xtra.ca/blog/halifax/post/2012/03/01/Turning-a-transgender-love-song-by-Antony-Hegarty-and-Charles-Atla.aspx)
What started as a performance/video installation/meditation on gender in 2004, soon became a tour of Europe and is now a documentary.
Turning is the love child of musician Antony Hegarty (Antony & The Johnsons) and filmmaker Charles Atlas. The documentary is more than just a concert film or a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of an artistic oeuvre.
The work in question was a series of performances by Hegarty wherein he would sing while Atlas filmed 13 "beauties" who stood on a revolving podium, the video feed beamed directly onto screens, leaving the audience with a live video portrait. The film also includes interviews with some of the beauties, such as Nomi, known from her work in Jessica 6 and Hercules & Love Affair.