RHYME ’EM TO DEATH
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RHYME ’EM TO DEATH
Performers: Steve Ausbury, Willem Dafoe, James 'J.J.' Johnson, Christopher Kondek, Scott Renderer, Elion Sacker, Dave Shelley, Peyton Smith, Leslie Thornton, Toby the Goat, Tom Zummer
Director: Elizabeth LeCompte
Screenplay: Kate Valk, Marianne Weems
Cinematographer: Leslie Thornton
Editor: Christopher Kondek
Soundtrack: Christopher Kondek, Leslie Thornton
Production Design: Kate Valk
Costumes: Elizabeth Jenyon
Producer: The Wooster Group
Production History
June 1992: Rhyme ‘Em to Death pre-production
July 1992: Rhyme ‘Em to Death film shoot
October 1992: Rhyme ‘Em to Death edit work begins
May 1994: Screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, California (received the Best New Visions Video Golden Gate Award)
March – June 1995: Rhyme ‘Em To Death included in The Whitney Biennial
June 4, 2004: Screened as part of the exhibit “Terrorvision” (curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo) at Exit Art, New York
December 19, 2009 - Feb 21, 2010: Rhyme 'Em To Death included in the exhibit "All Creatures Great and Small" at the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland
June 25-September 12 2010: Rhyme 'Em To Death included in the exhibit 'Ellipsis' at Paillard Contemporary Art Centre, Ponce sur le Loir, France
February 17 - 23, 2012: Screening as part of The Wooster Group on Film and Video 1975-2004, a week-long series of fourteen different programs of screenings, readings, and talks at Anthology Film Archives, New York
August 13, 2013: Screening at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
July 8 - 12, 2014: Screening at the Singapore International Arts Festival, Singapore
October 3, 2014: Screening at Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn
May 1, 2017: Screening at BAMcinématek as part of Leslie Thornton’s retrospective, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
April 23, 2023: Screening at Festival Internationale Neue Dramatik, Schaubühne, Berlin, Germany
