Five Poems
elongated within shadow deity. Warm when
fingers inherit cultural purpose
serenading
various methods of farthest-strain spectrum deliverance
analyzing trust in object
rejuvenation, definitional purpose supposed achromatic
certainty, bland as prose whose
purposeful relation
By Felino A. Soriano.
Returning to the City of Lost Souls
It is no surprise that Malcolm mentions Warhol. The influence of Chelsea Girls, and the Paul Morrissey films Flesh, Trash and (particularly) Women in Revolt, to which Warhol put his name, is clearly visible. Like Warhol and Morrissey, von Praunheim allowed his actors to improvise freely, often incorporating the results into the script, lending City of Lost Souls a similar feel to the films of Warhol, Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger and other pioneers of queer American underground cinema.
Juliet Jacques on Rosa von Praunheim‘s 1983 cult classic.