{"id":5563,"title":"Speciale Editie Films [Special Edition Films]","dimensions":"box: 40 x 30 cm","date_begin":"2003-01-01","material":"DVD, c-print","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":169,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"BK7508_M351","stream_count_app":31,"permalink":"speciale-editie-films-special-edition-films","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Rebecca Horn","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":"","short_description_tr":"","mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Series","nl":"","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/013/681/large/Rebecca_Horn_Films_2.jpg?1358156722","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsing her early performances documented on film as a starting point, Rebecca Horn has since the late-1970s developed more ‘staged’ films, including *Der Eintänzer*, *La Ferdinanda, Sonata für eine Medici-Villa* and *Busters’ Bedroom*. They are bizarre stories, full of unexpected, surrealistic twists and turns. In these films the objects take on an ever growing autonomy, they perform like actors alongside living figures: hammers hammer on their own, empty swings swing back and forth, until – with unexpected power and violence – they come to rest. Inanimate objects acquire human animation, and humans become monster-like machines. The mechanized sculptures become images of vulnerability, impotence, aggression or desire. Conversely, figures in the films lose their initiative and individual capacities, caught up in machine-like obsessional behavior. Rebecca Horn likes to use symbolically loaded elements and materials like lead, mercury, feathers, eggs, snakes, electricity and ink: an iconography that makes one think of alchemists and wizards. Horn refers to the world of myth, fairy tales, superstition, alchemy and (in large measure) to art tradition. Forging new connections between these sources, the artist makes room for new meanings. Recurring motifs are energy, emotion, communication and eroticism. Her interest in transmutation, the process of transformation from the one sort or state into another, is found again and again in her films.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eOp basis van de op film gedocumenteerde vroege performances ontwikkelt Rebecca Horn vanaf de late jaren ’70 meer geënsceneerde films, waaronder *Der Eintänzer*, *La Ferdinanda, Sonata für eine Medici-Villa* en *Busters’ Bedroom*. Het zijn bizarre verhalen, vol onverwachte, surrealistisch getinte wendingen. In deze films krijgen de objecten een steeds grotere zelfstandigheid, ze treden als acteurs op naast de levende personages: hamers kloppen uit zichzelf, lege schommels schommelen heen en weer, verenkleden bewegen, tot ze met een onverwacht kracht en gewelddadigheid tot stilstand komen. Levenloze objecten krijgen een menselijke bezieling en mensen worden monsterachtige machines. De gemechaniseerde sculpturen worden beelden van menselijke kwetsbaarheid, onmacht, agressie of verlangen. Omgekeerd verliezen de personages in de films hun intuïtieve en individuele vermogens en gaan in hun geobsedeerd gedrag op machines lijken. Rebecca Horn maakt graag gebruik van symbolisch geladen elementen en materialen als lood, kwik, pluimen, eieren, slangen, elektriciteit en inkt: een iconografie op die doet denken aan alchemisten en tovenaars. Horn verwijst naar de wereld van mythes, sprookjes, bijgeloof, de alchemie én in sterke mate de kunsttraditie. Op grond van nieuwe verbindingen tussen deze bronnen maakt de kunstenares ruimte voor nieuwe betekenissen. Terugkerende motieven zijn energie, emotie, communicatie en erotiek. Haar interesse in transmutatie, het proces van omzetting van de ene soort of staat in de andere keert in al haar films terug.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":710,"name":"Rebecca Horn","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}