Two veiled mouths lip synch an opera, the music substituted with a contrived and out-of-tune sound track. This incongruous encounter presents the body in all its strangeness.
Short film
CANADA | 5 minutes | 2016
Inspired by military infrared technology, Kirchenbauer reflects on intimacy as well as the privileged gaze of the spectator. Knowledge of the other is the currency upon which the economies of love and war operate.
GERMANY | 4 minutes | 2016
Her fantasies have forged her, and her body is the source.
QUEBEC | 11 minutes | 2017
Manipulating and re-editing individual frames from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 film Arabian Nights to illustrate a passage of William S. Burroughs’ 1981 book Cities of the Red Night.
UNITED STATES | 9 minutes | 2017
Playing the role of an urban, white-collar worker, renowned actor Chin Shih-Chieh takes the viewer into a surreal, erotic scene by muttering passages of the “small book” , a pornographic publication (xiaoben).
TAIWAN | 19 minutes | 2017
An epilogue to Arunanondchai’s 2012 video trilogy, the director revisits past times spent with Chantri, the main character of the trilogy, whom we never see.
THAILAND, United States | 25 minutes | 2015
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