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A Tribute to Timothy Carey
«Insect Trainer», «Lord High'n Low», «Godfarter», «God» - the names of characters under which the American actor extraordinaire Timothy Carey (1929-1994) made his mark in American film history say a lot about his zest for setting the high and low on to each other. Carey played in films by John Cassavetes, Elia Kazan and Stanley Kubrick, he turned down a role in Coppolas The Godfather and annoyed Marlon Brando and Kirk Douglas with his gusto for improvisation. He was a guerrilla-fighter for the «Politique des acteurs», a franctireur for his own good: he seizes whole films from the second and third row, turns his scenes, be it from A- or C-pictures, into an antiauthoritarian storm of intensity, presses his text through his clenched teeth, his eye-whites showing, often with his characteristic way of oscillated talking that seems to be directed completely to the inside and also completely to the outside. The World's Greatest Sinner, his own directorial work from 1962, is no confession, but a Dionysian, erratic underground work that also contains Careys ironic self-perception in the portrait of the founder of a Nietzean pop religion that celebrates the «average man» as «superhuman being». Curated by Vassily Bourikas. |