4 screen film installation, starring Joes Brauers and Cherise Silvestri
total runtime 56 minutes, 2022
photos: Gert-Jan van Rooij
Installation with four short fiction films playing simultaneously in the exhibition space.
4x DCP | 19, 14, 15, 16 minutes | dialogue, music | 2022
Description:
Four short fiction films, each with a distinct cinematic style that references the idiom of a known film director (Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg and Lars von Trier) are screened at the same time in the exhibition space.
A man and a woman deal with their complex relationship as lovers in Paranoia, as a mourning mother and son in Perversion, as two morbid strangers in Opulence and as two competitive colleagues in Competition. Each time an absent man is key to their relationship, be it as a cuckooed lover, a deceased father, a choreographer pulling the strings in the background or a murdered husband sitting in an armchair.
In dialogue, struggle, affection and strife, the two characters perform a complex and dramatic dance across the four screens, as they put on display the kind of behaviour that defines their cinematic type-casts as older woman and as younger man. At the same time, the overlap of snippets of audible dialogue from the other films, or the pairing of two or more moments from different films as they happen at the same time, upturn any straightforward reading and keep adding new possibilities of meaning.
The work departs from the idea, that the Oedipus myth in its Freudian interpretation–that has allegedly underpinned the narrative structure of cinema as the main form of mass entertainment in recent modernity–has lost its tenure in post-patriarchy and the audience should acknowledge that the Young Man (the son) can no longer symbolically murder The Father, as that has already been done by the Woman (the mother) pre-emptively. Offering nostalgic renditions of the striving young man and his female nemesis (in the guise of a mother, a lover, a colleague and a housewife) the installation packages the traditional pleasures of seductive cinema in a multiplicity, that can function in the art context and aims to highlight some of the mechanisms that underlie the pleasure of watching.
Candy Cherise Silvestri
Bully Joes Brauers
written and directed by Bart Groenendaal
producer Rogier Kramer
line producer Wilant Boekelman
production manager Laura Bouwmeester
production assistant Tessel Jonkers
Jetske Lieber
Hannah van Helden
first assistant director Frieder Wallis
second assistant director Renee de Graaff
directors assistant Rosario Cabred
choreographer Tomislav Feller
director of photography Jurgen Lisse
focus puller Maric Dam
second assistant camera Pauline Wiersma
gaffer Danny Schoute
best boy Erwin Smit
Joris van Gulik
Hidde Muskee
key grip Bjorn Schumacher
production sound mixer Luuk Hoogstraten
art director Marieke van den Bosch
art assistant Elia Castino
art assistant Maartje Luiken
set dresser Marnix Bloemberg
assistant set dresser Fien Lute
art runner Duncan Eilander
graphic design Pernilla Phillips
costume designer Lotte Noordermeer
wardrobe Koosje Janssen
Floortje Wijnands
make-up and hair Laura van Kolk
health and safety officer Valerie Rutjes
Indy Kisoen
catering Frank van den Berg
Zoë van Broekhoven
editor Bart Groenendaal
Elmer Leupen
composer Stijn Hosman
sound design and mix Jaim Sahuleka
postproduction facilities Fever Film
Bart van den Broek
Jessica Akkermans
colorist Joel Sahuleka
title design Haghefilm Digitaal
subtitling Ronald van Biezen
office manager Romana Hrvatin
budget controller Peter Kersten
legal advisor Merel Teunissen
publicity advisor Petra van Horssen
Anne Kervers