CURRENT VIEWING: DELIVER : JENNIFER MONTGOMERY AT BAM | The Imagist
Debut screening and Q & A with the director tonight at 7. “Migrating Forms presents the World Premiere of DELIVER (2008), Jennifer Montgomery’s all-female, video remake of DELIVERANCE. Shooting in the Catskills rather than Appalachian Georgia, a cast of experimental filmmakers/academics (Peggy Ahwesh, Jacqueline Goss, Meredith Root, Su Friedrich and Montgomery) play mirages of themselves—urban artists looking to unplug in the unspoiled wilderness. Montgomery follows John Boorman’s original movie and James Dickey’s original book closely, as the gender inversion complicates hegemonic notions of nature, power, and sexual violence, all on a stretch of river called, yes, The Beaverkill.”
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