Glass Lips.

"Originally shown as a gallery installation of 33 video artworks titled Blood of a Poet, Glass Lips contrasts natural sound - a gurgling stream, a wailing infant - with unnatural behavior, and meticulously controlled images with emotional anarchy," writes Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times. "After a while the film's expressiveness becomes so hypnotic that it's difficult not to make your own connections: the discovery that the gaping mouth of a blow-up doll resembles nothing so much as a silent scream no doubt says as much about me as it does about [Lech] Majewski."

Updated through 11/8.

"There are no words - nor, given the precision of Majewski's images and the haunting musical score that he composed, are they necessary," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. Opens today for a week-long run at the Pioneer in NYC.

Back in August, Philip Kennicott wrote in the Washington Post, "Majewski, born in 1953, is a major discovery, a brilliant filmmaker whose haunting aesthetic is formed of much deeper stuff, processed through a lively mind and idiosyncratic imagination, chastened and tempered by history, and captured on screen with the rigor and perfectionism of an artist who might also carve castles out of toothpicks."

Update, 11/8: "It's arguably the best thing going this weekend in New York," writes ST VanAirsdale at the Reeler.

Posted by dwhudson at November 7, 2007 5:49 AM