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I will get you out and chop you in the midair

Author
Mark Ther
Year
2007
Keywords
Technique and size

video, 8:47

About work

Uncertainty, absurdity and the depiction of a special moment of a story. These are the qualities we encounter in the video I Will Get You Out and Chop You Up in Mid-Air. The action takes place in a sunny garden, with well tended flower beds everywhere, blossoming geraniums, and of course the indispensible garden dwarf. The manifestly dramatic and action-filled events have already taken place. The end. In the middle of the garden lies the bloody body of a man in a pre-death convulsion, while an elderly man sits in a gazebo reading letters about a homosexual relationship that nobody should have known about. But what has happened? Who are these men? Were they in a relationship? Who is the murderer and who the victim? Was this a crime of passion? Or of hate? It is up to the viewer to answer these questions. The video ends with footage of the half-dead body crawling around the garden in the last throes of life. However, Ther manages to turn even this detailed shot into an aesthetic game with rhythmic movement.

Author of the annotation
Ladislav Zikmund-Lender

Published
2013

Photo

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