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_The Videoclip, or

How to Shave a Bald Man_

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Video, Cotonou, Benin, 2007, All rights reserved

duration 12 minutes. 


TheVideoclip, or How to Shave a Bald Man is a short video, featuring a group of drum players in a favela in Cotonou, Benin, who present an oral contract to the artist, on the promise to make a videoclip, as 'a favour between friends'.


Shots of the group are alternated with images of a busy street in their neighbourhood, where children make little dances and funny faces in front of the camera. 


After the meeting, a shaving session in a barbershop, where one of the band members is the barber– is filmed, while several boys assist him by holding up wires and handing tools, as he shaves the head of a man with almost no hair. The scene is played at double speed, making things look somewhat comical, to the soundtrack of the bands raw drumming and singing. 



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credits: 

Band Members, Cotonou Drumming Band

Hotel and Beach Resort El Dorado, Cotonou, Benin


camera + edit + guitar: Bart Groenendaal


Thanks to: 

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

All rights reserved, Bart Groenendaal / Laurent Kunda, 2007

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