Bright Colorful Lights and Other Attractions

Saturday, August 13 @ 8 PM at LPV

Le Petit Versailles garden presents Bright Colorful Lights and Other Attractions, a film performance and installation by Nicolas Vargelis that centers around Bette Gordon's 1983 film Variety. The event includes a lighting installation, short video screening, feature film, and talk with Bette Gordon. The lighting installation will feature 6 distinct looks or “situations” that focus on creating contrasting colorful moments of light inspired by the film.

In Variety, set in a 1980s colored New York City, a woman starts working in a porn cinema. The film follows her as she becomes more and more obsessed with pornography. With a razor-sharp script by Kathy Acker and with Bette Gordon's background in structural cinema, Variety is a unique depiction of a young woman's emancipation in an archaic New York City. In Nicholas' text, he delves into how the cityscape and its various types of lighting illuminate the film and traces a narration of desire through the carnivalesque and theatrical use of available electric light sources employed in the making of the film.

Le Petit Versailles
247 East 2nd St. / 346 East Houston St.
(between Avenues B & C)