A MAGGOT TANGO
Esoteric, bleak, profound, and crude, but nevertheless charming.
mag·got / măg-ət / n.
1. The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various dipteran flies, often found in decaying matter.
2. Slang – A despicable person.
3. Archaic – An extravagant notion; a whim.
Filmed when he was 16-years-old in the woods and old public buildings around Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Andrew Repasky McElhinney’s third movie A MAGGOT TANGO is now in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
A thirty-three minute silent movie, photographed Summer 1995 on black and white Ilford 16MM negative film, and matched in post-production to an eccentric playlist, A MAGGOT TANGO follows the descent of a young woman named “A,” played by 18-year-old Erica Downie in a committed and fearless performance.
“A” runs away from home, and perhaps kills herself, only to become trapped in an increasingly surreal nightmare filled with her disturbed parents, an angel, a dead little boy, a car crash, two random polysexual hook-ups, drugs, cannibals, and the specter of Death herself …as well as several tango dance sequences.
Strange, grotesque, and violently comic, A MAGGOT TANGO is part lyrical art film, part seedy sexploitation picture.
A Maggot Tango
mag·got / măg-ət / n.
1. The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various dipteran flies, often found in decaying matter.
2. Slang – A despicable person.
3. Archaic – An extravagant notion; a whim.
Filmed when he was 16-years-old in the woods and old public buildings around Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Andrew Repasky McElhinney’s third movie A MAGGOT TANGO is now in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
A thirty-three minute silent movie, photographed Summer 1995 on black and white Ilford 16MM negative film, and matched in post-production to an eccentric playlist, A MAGGOT TANGO follows the descent of a young woman named “A,” played by 18-year-old Erica Downie in a committed and fearless performance.
“A” runs away from home, and perhaps kills herself, only to become trapped in an increasingly surreal nightmare filled with her disturbed parents, an angel, a dead little boy, a car crash, two random polysexual hook-ups, drugs, cannibals, and the specter of Death herself …as well as several tango dance sequences.
Strange, grotesque, and violently comic, A MAGGOT TANGO is part lyrical art film, part seedy sexploitation picture.
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