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| Rikke Benborg |
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| OH, SWEET DARKNESS All at once aesthetic and existential touches Rikke Benborg's film at some fundamental emotions. The film takes us into an unreal, blue-green room, a dream universe in which the boundary between sleep and waking are blurred - and where you can not escape. We follow a young woman watching her fall asleep and review of classic dream scenarios as to lose its teeth and fall into the water. The film is accompanied by a discreet but insistent music that supports the dreamlike, surreal atmosphere. Rikke Benborgs interest in early experimental film is not forsaken, yet Oh, Sweet Darkness a very contemporary bid on an abstract narrative that is carried through visual means. |
| Rikke Benborg is a film and video artist, living and working in Copenhagen. Educated from The Royal Danish Academy of fine art (MA visual arts), and from Middlesex University in London (BA hons fine art). My works often attempt to explore the illogic of dreams and the unconscious. I prefer surreal fragmented narratives as oppose to traditional cinematic storytelling. Film for me becomes a tool for exploring the logic and the poetics of the image. I often include elements of animation in my work. Animation, with it's ability to make the inanimate come alive, and make the hidden apparent, almost have an alchemistic quality and thus it encompasses everything magic, oscure and un? That quality attracts me. I am similarly seduced by everything theatrical: the gestures and melancholy of early silent film, in particular, and all sorts of work that deals with unrealistic aesthetics, masks and dressing up in weird costumes. I often work in a formal, minimal language, but strangely I feel informed by all the opposites. |
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