Videoplaylist

One guest
6 videos (or more)
their selection

Every month we invite a guest to present their selection of six videos that exist online and that revolve around a subject of their choice, a favourite genre, a personal take on things or an obsession. Go ahead, take a look around our archive.

Oct. 2012
Cecilia Molano

?Flows of affection, of infection, flows from suffering behind the lines, bitter caramel of the past, stalagmites slowly formed: he walks with these flows, he apprehends with them, spongy limbs dripping from his head, limbs pierced by a thousand little transversal flows (...) minuscule, multiple punctures.?

Henri Michaux. Portrait des Meidosems.

This playlist takes us on a journey through situations that mix pain, sex, movement, pleasure, and different relationships between body and desire.

  • Chantal Akerman: "La captive"

  • Pippilotti Rist: "Ever is Over All"

  • Sigalit Landau: "Barbed hula"

  • Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961)

  • Lisandro Alonso: "Los muertos"

  • Emilie Jouvet: "Party Time Scream Club"

Chantal Akerman: "La captive"

"... and Albertine was so entirely passive, had so complete a faculty of forgetting things and submitting..." Marcel Proust.

Pippilotti Rist: "Ever is Over All"

(Start viewing at 0?44")

What I like best: the colour of her dress and the joy of liberating the body, breaking free without fear.

Sigalit Landau: "Barbed hula"

Movement and the traces it leaves behind. Marks.

Mother Joan of the Angels (Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 1961)

?At the end of the morning and evening prayers, the sisters remained standing in the choir and prayed until they were given a sign to begin with their devotional worship. Some tortured themselves with knee bends while praising the rule of God. Others, consumed by the fire of divine love, were unable to contain their tears, which they accompanied with devotional wailing. They did not move until they were suffused anew by grace and found ?thou whom my soul loveth? (Song of Solomon). Others finally tormented their flesh by severely maltreating it on daily basis ? some with birch rods, others with whips, containing three or four knotted straps, a third group with iron chains, a fourth one with flagella furnished with thorns. During Advent and the entire fasting period, the sister went into the chapter house and other appropriate places after the morning prayers, where they mauled their bodies severely with the most diverse instruments of flagellation until blood flowed, so that the lashings of the whip sounded through the whole cloister and, sweeter than any other melody, ascended to the Lord's ears?. Ancelet-Hustache, 1930 in Erika Fischer-Lichte "Aesthetics of the performative."

Dedicated to darling Eki, who shared it with me.

Lisandro Alonso: "Los muertos"

A descent into a plant world where bodies rot and break up.

Emilie Jouvet: "Party Time Scream Club"

Some music to finish up with.