On Transgression:
Dennis Cooper and Tony Tulathimutte
To expand the conversation about independent cinema, the festival presents talks between filmmakers and artists from a variety of disciplines, on some of the most relevant themes and artistic practices of today.
Sunday, April 6, 12 p.m. @ Philosophical Research Society
One of America’s most influential underground novelists, Dennis Cooper (“The Sluts”) joins the acclaimed millennial satirist Tony Tulathimutte (“Rejection”) to discuss their respective approaches and inspirations in creating aberrant and transgressive depictions of obsession and desire in cinema and literature.
About Dennis Cooper: Complex yet ruthlessly clear, Dennis Cooper’s prose recounts the emotional and erotic lives of troubled teenagers. His characteristic ability to combine cruelty with tenderness, sadism with anxiety, has made him one of his generation’s essential voices. In addition to his film collaborations with Zac Farley, he is known for novels such as the five novel quintology “The George Miles Cycle” (1989 -2000), “The Sluts” (2008), “The Marbled Swarm” (2014), and “I Wished” (2021). He has written widely on art, film, music, and literature, and has been a Contributing Editor of Artforum since the late 90s. Since moving from Los Angeles to Paris in 2005, he has written nine theater pieces for the director/choreographer Gisèle Vienne and composed a series of innovative GIF novels, most recently “Zac’s Drug Binge” (2020).
About Tony Tulathimutte: Tony Tulathimutte is the author of “Private Citizens” and “Rejection.” He’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, Playboy, The Nation, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn.
Additional artist talks to be announced.