004 The Devil Wears Dada: and Loves Boosters?
BooF FM by Jessie and Seán
Episode notes
It seems the movie-going market has been cornered by socially conscious fashion-focused films. We have keenly boofed the newest films of this nascent trend and are ready to undress them.
With Boots Riley filtering the colonial world of high fashion through his surrealist, marxist-motivated lens in I Love Boosters, and the Devil Wears Prada 2 waging war on the technologization of fashion, journalism and the soul, we decided to ask - has Dadaism been sewn deeply into their filmic outfits? Does… the Devil Wear Dada?
In short - probably not. But as a pair of technophobic luddites we decided it would be good to look at how the legacy of Dada and AI anxiety lives in the seams of some cult-favourite films. With this in mind we decided to dizzy ourselves with Alejandro Jodorowski’s spiritually surreal The Holy Mountain (1973), before endorsin ...