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sixteen drifters
Installation HD video projection and radio transmission, color w/ sound, 20'46".
Series of four color coded prints, archival pigment on bamboo paper in museum frames, 30 x 30 cm.
Stills from video and presentation at Het Wilde Weten in Rotterdam.
Series of four color coded prints, archival pigment on bamboo paper in museum frames, 30 x 30 cm.
Stills from video and presentation at Het Wilde Weten in Rotterdam.
Against the backdrop of a vacant old house, two voices pursue the shadows of 1968 and of its aftermath: Drifter, brooding over the revolution that never came, and his unnamed companion, who addresses him from the ranks of a funeral procession.
The Price for Fire is based on the events surrounding the death of M.A., an activist who, aged 28, perished in a fire at his home in the December of 1976. M, who had adhered to the workers’ movements that emerged in 1968, left behind a handful of poems, in which he entrusted his inner disillusionment to an alter-ego named “Drifter”. The short film unfolds as a play for two voices meeting at the threshold between expectation and grief, and is freely inspired by the original poems written by M.