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July 08, 2006
Centering WTC: revenge of Ollie's expropriationist
The New York Times' Felicia R. Lee catches up with the latest development in the story of Chris Moukarbel, the artist sued for producing a $1,000 video out of the screenplay for World Trade Center. [Movie City Indie was cited in the complaint for earlier coverage.] 
The new bit o' criticism sounds like a more fascinating piece of work than the earlier appropriation: "This one was created from film shot in the process of making the video that led to the lawsuit.... After a temporary restraining order was placed on the distribution and showing of his video (part of a thesis project for his Master of Fine Arts at Yale), Mr. Moukarbel went ahead and produced another for Wallspace [Gallery in New York]. For his new 13-minute video, he used film of the two actors in the first video while they were waiting for direction and getting into character. It has no dialogue except for the banter between the actors and off-camera direction from Mr. Moukarbel. Mr. Moukarbel, 28, who graduated from Yale in May, said his new video was intended to capture the art of performance and to serve as commentary on his plight. "I had to put together a project to reflect on the old project but also stand in its own right," he said.... Spokesmen for Paramount could not be reached for comment yesterday."
Posted by Ray Pride at July 8, 2006 05:20 PM
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