Everything is nothing
Video/Film, 12.24 min, HDV, Berlin, Germany
All scenes of 'Everything is nothing' take place inside the spaces of Cinema Babylon in Berlin. Through lightening, improvisation and choreography the structures of the rooms are used as a stage for theatrical scenes that bring the uncanny into a familiar space.
As a Girl errs through an Odyssey of encounters, she meets the DJ, the Gang, the Vampires, the Lady, the Student and other seductive characters inside of the Cinema Babylon. Meanwhile the DJ, positioned on the upper level, puts her down for having small breasts, the Gang, hiding between the seats, attempts to descend on her, simultaneously the Vampires are longing to infect her in the backstage. Instead of being destroyed, she seemingly gains more and more strength with every humiliation and develops into a witty and calm protagonist.
The encounters are determined by a sexual and psychological violence in a highly surreal, grotesque but authentic manner. Consequently, the thin line between verity of fact, subjectivity of perception, sense of guilt of a victim and willingness of self-destruction forms an unanswered question that leaves the viewer with an uneasy feeling of disruption.
Everything is nothing
2007
Video, HDV, 12.24 min
Berlin, Germany
In the video ‘Everything is nothing’ Marcin plays a Girl that errs through an odyssey of encounters with twilight characters inside Berlin’s Cinema Babylon. The cinema itself become a stage for theatrical scenes that bring the uncanny into a familiar space. The thin line between self-destructive behavior, sense of guilt of a victim, subjectivity of perception form questions that leaves the viewer with an uneasy feeling of disruption.
A Girl errs through an odyssey of encounters. She meets the DJ, the Gang, the Vampires, the Lady, the Student and other seductive characters inside of the Cinema Babylon. Meanwhile the DJ, positioned on the upper level, puts her down for having small breasts, the Gang, hiding between the seats, attempts to descend on her, simultaneously the Vampires are longing to infect her in the backstage. Instead of being destroyed, she seemingly gains more and more strength with every humiliation and develops into a witty and calm protagonist. The encounters are determined by a sexual and psychological violence in a highly surreal, grotesque but underlying authentic improv manner.
Everything is nothing
Video/Film, 12.24 min, HDV, Berlin, Germany
All scenes of 'Everything is nothing' take place inside the spaces of Cinema Babylon in Berlin. Through lightening, improvisation and choreography the structures of the rooms are used as a stage for theatrical scenes that bring the uncanny into a familiar space.
As a Girl errs through an Odyssey of encounters, she meets the DJ, the Gang, the Vampires, the Lady, the Student and other seductive characters inside of the Cinema Babylon. Meanwhile the DJ, positioned on the upper level, puts her down for having small breasts, the Gang, hiding between the seats, attempts to descend on her, simultaneously the Vampires are longing to infect her in the backstage. Instead of being destroyed, she seemingly gains more and more strength with every humiliation and develops into a witty and calm protagonist.
The encounters are determined by a sexual and psychological violence in a highly surreal, grotesque but authentic manner. Consequently, the thin line between verity of fact, subjectivity of perception, sense of guilt of a victim and willingness of self-destruction forms an unanswered question that leaves the viewer with an uneasy feeling of disruption.
Exhibitions / Catalogs:
Short-Term Deviation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2010
European Attitude, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Zendai MoMA, Shanghai, 2008
New Beijing International Film Festival, Beijing, 2007
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