Tuesday, February 03, 2015

"Alex Prager" (NGV)

Heavily stylised, Hollywood-refracted photos and short films from an artist who seems very LA. I liked "Face in the crowd", in which Elizabeth Banks - as it turns out, an actor with exactly the kind of old style glamour (and beauty) for the part - emerges as the central figure in a three-screen, 12 minute drama of individual stories amidst a crowd in which much seems to be telegraphed and yet nothing is fully disclosed.