Radical filmmaker Charles Atlas on Leigh Bowery, porn, and performance - Interview Magazine
The master and inventor of the media dance genre is nowhere near done exploring the dizzy interconnections of our media-saturated social landscape.
In this time of posting and tagging and filtering, the idea of filming live dance, filming life itself as dance, and choreographing and documenting various segments of the cultural underground, all seem like a vital part of artistic production. But back in the early ’70s, Charles Atlas pioneered an entirely new film practice by using the language and movement of contemporary dance and performance.