Pas de deux
by Baha Görkem Yalim, 2015, 5'
Video
5’27”
Courtesy the artist

Schermo dell'Arte - Archivio Film   Presented at VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images - 4th edition
 
This video is the result of a research conducted by the artist on old medical footage showing the symptoms of shell shock syndrome in veterans of the First World War. Instead of working directly on the frames of the archival footage, Yalim enacts a performance based on an essential and distressing choreography that reproduces the mobility problems and spasms of those patients. The work is a research focused on the aestethicisation and consumption of violence represented by the artist through the use of gestures from silent films and precise formal references to performance art. The video was presented at the EYE Film Institute Netherlands where some of the original footage is preserved.

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