Frank Booth here. You wanna go for a ride?
I hear there’s some suave motherfucker in town making an installation inspired by “Blue Velvet,”
and if you don’t go, you fucking fuck, you may never go to pussy heaven.
A ride, you say? Now that’s a good idea.
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) and Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) in “Blue Velvet.”
Cuc’ Alum Zach Clark (“White Reindeer,” “Vacation!”) will curate the 20th annual Cucalorus Film Festival’s “Bus to Lumberton” installation, an immersive experience that will take audience members into the beautifully grotesque world of locally filmed “Blue Velvet.”
The films of David Lynch often bridge the gap between a sense of childlike nostalgia and nightmarish paranoia, and you can expect this theme to run through the installation, though Clark refuses to reveal too much before-hand. Like in a David Lynch film, the dirty deets aren’t quite so obvious to the untrained eye; you’ll have scratch beneath the surface before the seedy underworld of suburbia will reveal itself. (There may be some hidden hints in this blog… who? knows!)
One twist we can reveal is that the experience will be an individual one, letting audience members into the space one by one. Clark says that this will foster a more personalized, immersive experience for the participant and will allow everyone to take it on their own terms.
Jeffrey Beaumont (played by Kyle MacLachlan) finds a severed human ear in “Blue Velvet.”
“I’m seeing something that was always hidden. I’m involved in a mystery. I’m in the middle of a mystery. And it’s all secret.” -Jeffrey Beaumont, “Blue Velvet.”
What’s behind the red curtain? Get your peek at 9 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Murchison building. No ticket required.