Dark Stars Rising
Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realms by Shade Rupe has been published by Headpress.
Review
“The most fearsome creatures in the transgressive cinema.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times“An untamed grab bag of gonzo weirdos in one lovingly sculpted collection. A must-have for miscreants of almost every persuasion.” – Chris Alexander, Fangoria
“There is a smarter universe out there and Shade may just have inadvertently mapped its manifesto.” – Steven Severin, Siouxsie and the Banshees
“Nobly horrific. I loved it!” – Ken Russell, director Altered States
Product Description
The smaller half of Penn & Teller ends his silence for a lengthy discussion of magic and falsehoods, Divine opens the closet during his transition to playing male roles, Crispin Glover gives love to Fassbinder, Faster Pussycat! Kill, Kill!’s Tura Satana tells it like it is from burlesque shows to Hollywood, Alejandro Jodorowsky showers cinema lovers with psychomagic, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge lays down the gauntlet with his creations Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and much much more.Shade Rupe’s DARK STARS RISING: CONVERSATIONS FROM THE OUTER REALMS is a collection of 27 candid interviews spanning 24 years with unique, free-thinking artists, from America, Austria, and beyond. Working in different media, countries, constraints, and freedoms, the vortex here is created by New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural realm he inhabits with his Funeral Party books. Everyone in this collection has produced artifacts that affect the heart, mind, soul, and future.
A visually stunning package, DARK STARS RISING contains over 500 photographs and illustrations, many of them rare and hitherto unseen. A choice selection of reviews rounds out this amazing book.
About the Author
Throughout 2009 and 2010, Shade Rupe produced the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film in Seattle and Portland, programmed the 26th Olympia Film Festival, served as Chairman of the International Jury at the 15th Lund International Festival of Fantastic Film in southern Sweden, curated a weekend film festival at Sundance, coproduced the four-city Ken Russell tour Russellmania! along with Fantasia, Lincoln Center, the American Cinematheque, and Rue Morgue, wrote the feature film Fear Factory, was a guest at the Night Visions festival in Helsinki, and completed this book. He also edited the acclaimed Funeral Party journals and has done a mess of other stuff. A few of his favorite films are Performance, The Devils, Zardoz, All That Jazz, Stardust Memories, and The Hourglass Sanitorium, and favorite musicians he’s seen live include Grizzly Bear, Krzysztof Penderecki, The Master Musicians of Bukkake, Diamanda Galás, and The Black Angels.
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