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_Lives in
London
Tuin,
1998
16 mm-film, twin DVD, 2 CDs (color,
sound), approx. 6'
Courtesy of the artist and
Jay Jopling / White Cube, London
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Runa Islam
and David Bussel
DB_ Your work Tuin is based upon a scene from Fassbinder's film Martha.
Could you explain the
reference?
RI_ The particular scene that Ive used in the work Tuin is an archetypal
moment, a filmic mechanism thats often used for very romantic parts
in pop-videos, Bollywood and clichéd Hollywood films where the
characters are shot in a 360° rotating view. In Martha it has a very
considered use at a pivotal moment in the film where a new character and
a new narrative are introduced. As a symbol of a total turnaround it signalled
a trajectory of demise for the female protagonist. Fassbinder offers a
terrible incite into the sado-masochistic intrigues of male-female relationships.
Its a very disturbing film, and Fassbinder is particularly profound
and notorious for showing the malign aspects in human motions and relationships.
He sees the people he portrays as incapable of being happy, and tragically
beyond hope. I found the 360š turn so hypnotising that I felt it was enough
to take that moment of spectacle and extract it from the film. My remake
was in 16mm film and I added the use of video cameras, given to the actors
to film from their own point of view. From their perspectives, the woman
gets to look back at the man and my intention was to simultaneously reveal
the whole theatre of the set-up. The camera crew, the equipment and the
drama are exposed. The 360š track becomes a very important motif. I think
the moment in the film when the man eclipses the woman is very important,
not necessarily for feminist reasons but for any person whose identity
has been overshadowed by anothers. Fassbinder had used the movement ideologically
and had critically calculated its effectiveness to the plot. I wanted
the scene to represent an overall view creating a dialectic between the
objective and the subjective. (..)
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