User:Niek Hilkmann/Damien Hirst - Marooned on a desert island

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Damien Hirst - Marooned on a desert island is a short film recorded on VHS during a one month residency at the Aalmarkt in Leiden. The movie is inspired by the artwork of Damien Hirst and incorporates his visual language within the context of an amateur film esthetic. Both the iconography and titles of the artworks are referred to in the dialogue and the narrative of the movie. The restaging of Hirst's well-known artworks within an amateur environment, has the effect that they are shaken loose from their economic value and ambiguous meaning in the fine art 'world'. As such, the movie tells the viewer about the inability of the human race to sufficiently narrate abstract themes like life, death and love.

Trailer

http://vimeo.com/66591444

Premiere

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