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EVERYBODY LOVES NOTHING (EMPATHIC EXERCIZES)
Steve ReinkeReinke completed ‘Everbody Loves Nothing’ during his stay as an artist-in-residence at Video In in Vancouver. For this film, Reinke used archival footage from the Prelinger Archive in New York. The seven episodes are linked thematically. Each one takes an archival clip and inserts a narrator who, while speaking in the first person, moves smoothly between the first and third....
THE RESIDENTS
Vincent MeessenBarry meets Lucy. They’re both artists living in Europe. He’s an American, she wants to be one. He has no visa, she wants dual nationality. There are no amorous feelings between them, just a preoccupation with hospitality, citizenship and art...
VOMIT STAR
Steve Reinke - John MarriottIn 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...
CHRYSALIDES
Patrick BernatchezThis trilogy of films takes the Fashion Plaza Building as its subject; the films were all shot on location there. Taken together, the films form a figurative, cinematic counterpoint to the abstract audio rendering of the facades in Fashion Plaza Nights...
THE WHOLE SKIN TYPES CATALOG (A TEPID SUMMER)
Edith DekyndtIn order to construct this work Dekyndt made a filmed review of different skins – used as a colour palette. The backs of different persons were filmed, focusing each time on the spot between the shoulder blades. The interweaving and the succession of skins, from very light to very dark, account for the diversity and unique texture of each skin...
BALANÇOIRE
Danièle Nyst - Jacques Louis NystA short film, part of an installation, from Jacques-Louis Nyst of a red swing. The swing is going back and forth in a constant rythm. The sound-track is the monotonous sound of the rubbing metal....
THE MAGGOTS
Messieurs DelmottePinned on a soundtrack of heavy metal jazz, Messieurs Delmotte is lying on a blue mattress. Out of his mouth are hundreds of little white maggots. A horror scene in overdrive or a fantasy? Part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....
END CREDITS
Ken KoblandFilmed over a few nights in the late Ron Vawter’s dressing room during the show ‘Roy Cohn/Jack Smith’ at the Kitchen, NYC, in October 1993, this tape is a small but poignant homage to an extraordinary talent....
