‘The Goodbye Couple’

Program 3, Tomorrow’s Ruins Today!

Sunday, 3pm

Among the competition’s most well-executed and moving entries is “Evening Star,“ a woman’s one-day study of her grandmother, apparently, a lifelong housewife going about her chores and rituals. Amid bittersweet assurances that “everything has a meaning,” she laments a life at odds with her “different spirit”… I have nothing to say about “Les Skateurs,“ other than that it was made in Morocco… “Legal Errorist” looks like a Calvin Klein commercial, and its naked performance artist’s gyrations are a mess of manipulated emotion that’s probably a statement on modern womanhood… The silence in “Null X” is suffocating… Vivid, diverse, ambitious, disorienting, and familiar, “Anthology of American Folk Song” is all about absorbing all of it. Let me take this opportunity to admit that I have no idea how Ivan Lozano came up with the titles to these programs.

This article appears in September 16 • 2005.

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James graduated from Columbia University in 2000 and moved to Austin a year later. Ever since, he has followed the arts and video game scene in ATX, editing and writing stories for the Chronicle along the way. Over his more than 20 years with the paper he has climbed the "corporate" ladder from lowly intern to managing editor.