Usually I'm Very Supportive of Delusion
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Nic Murphy
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, provocative, sensual
A static camera, a woman, a monologue: patterns in lovers, in personality types, in sex, in spiritual leakage. The 'screen test' frame slowly admits it's actually a confession.
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Just one woman talking to a camera about sex and personality types, and you can't tell where the screen test ends and the confession begins. That's the good kind of uncomfortable.
Nic Murphy stages a screen-test confessional where Garrison's writing and the performer's delivery blur authorship — Warhol's frame plus Akerman's stillness. The piece I keep thinking about.
Single-performer monologue staged as a screen test, written by one woman and delivered by another — Murphy and Garrison blurring authorship and self-revelation is a sharp formal idea for a sustained piece.
Reviews
Zigzagging through the spiritual, academic and sexual... Words spill out without inhibition and even as she flirts with the edge of incomprehensible, it sounds like the truth.