Emily Sundblad

Film still from the video false true love

new york city’s very own chanteuse

interview by RITA ACKERMANN

 

As Ingrid Caven became the quintessential woman of Fassbinder’s utopian dreams, wifed on the ruins of post-war German conscience, Emily Sundblad’s voice emerged, charged with the survival mode of the traumatized, post-9/11-era downtown NYC, holding court with style and graceful dignity. In Fassbinder’s movies, style was highly sought after. With mannerism and performances, they could prevent things feeling realistic. Style has the power to escape reality, but style is in great danger when its details are sloppy or neglected in favor of comfort or, even worse, sacrificed for the sake of banality.

Film still from the video false true love

Emily’s sounds and visuals are idealistic. She disappears among the layers of the meticulously constructed characters of her paintings and songs. She prefers…