Lists 05. Artforum.

Five lists of films run in Artforum's "Best of 2005" issue; two are online, and they're both the sort of list we probably won't see a whole lot of as the list-making season begins. Yes, Brokeback Mountain tops artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien's, but he's also got an item like Stan Douglas's Inconsolable Memories on there as well.

Curator Chrissie Iles leads with a project that doesn't seem to have been completed yet, "Destricted": "For this series of short films, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Mike Figgis, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gaspar Noé have - or soon will have - created (at the behest of Neville Wakefield, Mel Agace and Andrew Hale) some of the sexiest moments in recent cinema. Strictly for adults."

Also online are Dennis Cooper and Susie Ibarra's music top tens and the #1's of eleven art top tens, each from an artist or curator.

Definitely of note as well is Hal Foster's piece on how he was struck twice this year by two very different sorts of double exposure that lead him to conclude that "one narrative, perhaps the grandest of all... continues unabated, even unabashed: the narrative of modernization."

Carol Armstrong on The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult (at the Metropolitan through the end of the year): "[I]t taps deep into photography's dark heart. Any photograph is a trick, after all."

And then, two reports on local scenes: Matt Saunders in Berlin and Midori Matsui in Tokyo.

Posted by dwhudson at December 3, 2005 4:10 AM