![]() One can’t overstate the glamour of Michael in all this. Or it can be one single step at the beginning of a dance, where you have-and he used to talk about this a lot-one singular sensation. There are certain times when he sends secret signs and messages. Something genius about Michael is how he ironizes certain things, or makes irony out of things that really aren’t. It’s not like, “I am the filmmaker” or “I am the costume designer.” It all becomes different things. One of the things that I think he interrogates is the very notion of collaboration, actually. But I would like to point out how, in a radical sense, Michael is generous with anyone who collaborates with him. Since then, we’ve worked together on many things he’s persuaded me even to take the stage. That’s as simple as it was, but I just knew that it could provide the right kind of set for Michael’s work. I took a little Cessna plane up above the clouds and shot a movie while hanging out the side. The first time we worked together on a piece, he asked me to make the backdrop for his first choreographic event at Riverside Studios in London, called Of a Feather, Flock I. Some of them are fucking difficult to do! But now I have something like my own choreography. And every year since we met he gives me a step for my birthday. Michael is a profoundly good reader the conceptual aspect of our relationship and our delight in that prospect of reading has become transparent. Subsequently I tried to introduce him to the writing I knew-David Antin, for example. You see, Michael, in a sense, equivocates a kind of crazy literature that binds itself within footsteps after Language poetry, we started talking about what it means to actually make a step. We didn’t know that at the time, of course, but this is exactly what we were bonded through. Within seconds, we were talking about, I don’t know, modernist semantics and queer culture. ![]() cummings we were talking about Language poetry and Gertrude Stein. The first conversation that we had, bizarrely enough, was probably about e. ![]() But there are certain people you respond to the moment you meet, and this was just kismet. Michael must have been a teenager at the time, just seventeen or something, an adventurous tyke with a sparkle in his eye. I didn’t really know his work, but then it didn’t really exist. MICHAEL AND I FIRST MET a long time ago, probably in 1981, at the filmmaker Derek Jarman’s apartment on Tottenham Court Road in London. He’s handsome and popular and good at sports and would probably be real annoying if it weren’t for the fact that he’s also a decent, kind person who seems to have his head on straight.Cerith Wyn Evans, Michael Clark, Steven Guff, and crew during the production of the film component of Michael Clark’s Parts I–IV, 1983. ![]() It’s been this way since childhood for her, and hasn’t been helped by the fact that her brother Darian (Blake Jenner) is at the top of the social ladder. Nadine (Steinfeld) is a sarcastic, often inappropriate, occasionally blue and perpetually aggrieved young woman who exists on the peripheries of the high school ecosystem. It’s a movie with a bite and one for the people who would never actually want to go back to that part of life. From the first shot of a grungy maroon sedan door splattered with mud screeching to a halt outside of a high school where our heroine Nadine (Steinfeld) informs her teacher (a terrific Woody Harrelson) that she plans to kill herself, it’s clear that this is no sanitized high school nostalgia trip. Also, that the small “love interest” role had such an impact is a testament to the care with which this movie was put together. But it’s the kind of introduction to a should-be star that’s not to be missed. Szeto, a relative newcomer, is just one of them. There are other reasons to go see “The Edge of Seventeen,” of course. When’s the last time you saw a truly fresh talent on screen? Someone so charismatic that you couldn’t wait to find out who they are, what they’ve done before and why you’ve never noticed? That’s what it feels like to watch Hayden Szeto as the sweetly dorky love interest to Hailee Steinfeld’s lead in “The Edge of Seventeen,” a charmingly sardonic coming-of-age story from the promising writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig in her feature debut.
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