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The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh, 1994)
The Color of Love (Peggy Ahwesh, 1994)

    The Color of Love

    Peggy Ahwesh, USA, 1994, 10’

    According to Peggy Ahwesh, there is beauty and ecstasy in decay. With her 16mm blow-up of a pornographic Super 8 film, the American artist seeks sensuality. The discarded stag reel has mould stains, scratches, and cracks, but these also add colour. Rot adds something lustful to the performative sex scenes that paint over the mould and dance to melancholic tango.

    A motionless, bloodied man lies naked on a bed beneath this kaleidoscopic splendour. Two women kiss his flaccid member and caress it with a knife. The perverse sexual fantasy, though difficult to decipher due to abrasion, unquestionably caters to the male gaze. Ahwesh’s montage emphasises this by slowing down and repeating explicit close-ups. Her intervention, which she dedicates to sexploitation icon Doris Wishman, feels like a welcome critique of the superficial source material.

    Flo Vanhorebeek
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    This film was part of yanco’s October 2026 calendar

    experimental eroticism

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    Harshit Vishwakarma, Hugo Pilate, Pedro Gil Farias, Portugal, 2024, 5’

    This machinima explores the perspective of a self-conscious replica of a plaza inside the video game Skater XL. The plaza reflects on its original, its own condition, and its relationship to a peculiar visitor: a white silhouette of a skater.

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    Meltse Van Coillie, Belgium, 2018, 27’

    A ship drifts in the middle of an endless sea. Aboard is a crew of five. They all cope with boredom — some by trying to overpower it; others by escaping into a parallel world guided by dreams.

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    Operation Jane Walk

    Total Refusal, Austria, 2018, 17’

    The militaristic environment of the dystopian multiplayer shooter game Tom Clancy’s The Division is reused for a pacifist city tour. During a walk through the post-apocalyptic city, issues such as architectural history and urbanism are discussed.

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    Snow Edge

    Juan Francisco Rodríguez, Colombia, 2021, 15’

    The thaw of the so-called eternal snow of Páramo, a neotropical alpine ecosystem in the high Andes, exposes a layer of meaning about the origins and survival of the landscape.

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    Working Knowledge of Ritual

    Hannan Jones, Australia, 2023, 4’

    By interweaving esoteric texts and images, Working Knowledge of Ritual underscores the interconnectedness of spirituality and nature. The film muses on our energies alongside the natural world, inspired by the writings of Leonard Jones.

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    The White Elephant

    Shuruq Harb, Palestine, 2018, 12’

    Using images shared on the Internet by Israelis during the Gulf War, the First Intifada, and trance music gatherings, Shuruq Harb paints the portrait of a Palestinian teenager in the 1990s. In the midst of Israeli pop culture and the political climate of the Oslo Accords, she comes to grips with her anxiety.

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    Sylvia Kristel – Paris

    Manon de Boer, Belgium, 2003, 39’

    Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as a film about the impossibility of memory in relation to biography.

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    Following the Object to Its Logical Beginning

    Lynne Sachs, USA, 1987, 7’

    Like an animal in one of Eadweard Muybridge’s scientific photo experiments, five undramatic moments in a man’s life are observed by a woman. A study in visual obsession and a twist on the notion of the “gaze”.

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