Doomed Love (1983) by Andrew Horn
Sunday, October 7, 1984, 8:00 pm
Doomed Love
Doomed Love (1983) by Andrew Horn, 75 min.
New York filmmaker Andrew Horn’s first feature, Doomed Love dramatizes how certain romantic myths pervade modern living. It is Bill Rice’s (Vortex) Annabelle Lee-like obsession that sets the film’s strange triangle d’amour in motion. Contortions of love and death transpire amidst an expressionist topography designed by artists Amy Silman and Pamela Wilson. Former Robert Wilson collaborator, Jim Neu wrote the script that lends the film its ‘modern opera’ sensibility. Doomed Love‘s romantic angst is amplified by an original score by Evan Lurie (pianist for the Lounge Lizards). Charles Ludlam and Susan Blackeyed, founders of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, guest star. With wit, sensitivity, and pictorial stylization, Doomed Love comments wryly, surreally on postmodern romance.