In order to allow Jeanne to be viewed within the context of Martin Arnold`s earlier work, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal showed three of Arnold`s highly acclaimed earlier films.
Photo(s): Leo van Kampen
Despite Martin Arnold`s established international reputation as a filmmaker and an artist, his work has seldom been exhibited in The Netherlands. Concurrently with Jeanne, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal showed three of Arnold`s highly acclaimed earlier films: Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy _ (1998), _Passage a l’Acte (1993) and Pièce Touchée (1989). Like Jeanne, these films are all adaptations of Hollywood classics made between the 1930`s and 1960`s. Arnold`s at times almost psychoanalytical reinterpretations are as bizarre and blackly humorous as they are cutting and unsettling. Scenes that, at first glance, appear to be uneventful soon turn out to have hidden meanings.
In editing his films, Arnold often makes use of loops and repetitions. These techniques were also employed in the making of Jeanne and the earlier works shown in De Kabinetten. But while the loops and repetitions were edited at high speed in Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy, Passage a l’Acte and Pièce Touchée, in Jeanne the pace is much slower.
The presentation highlighting Martin Arnold was the fourth in a series of Vleeshal projects about new developments in the field of sound and image. Whilst the Martin Arnold exhibition centred around cinema; Generating Live (2000) by (among others) VJ and artist Geert Mul and musician Speedy J revolved around VJ-ing and club culture.
The relationship between art and music video was an important element in music video maker and artist Chris Cunningham’s flex (2001); new developments in computer generated imagery was so in artist and computer programmer Lucas van der Velden’s 0010 (2001).
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