DEADPAN BUSTED

2017, 03:52 min, RED, Video HD 4:3, no sound

The video is a personal snapshot and a reenactment of Steve McQueen's work Dead Pan (1997), which in turn is a remake of Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) by Buster Keaton. Where comedy is the driving force of Keaton, McQueen moves the emotion to sculptural and heroic. I also maintained the former Dead Pan's black and white look, absence of sound and short duration. The camera is fixed; body and face solemn and expressionless ("the Deadpan"). The single true movement is the fall of the facade. Only where in the original a strategically positioned McQueen and Keaton are never hit, I am in the wrong place at the wrong time. HOI!