Get Rid of Oneself is actually a video-film-tract addressed to those who anonymously embody the return of political activism inside of Empire. Whilst its preliminary sounds and images have been filmed during the riots in Genoa, 2001, these materials are pulled apart and recomposed so that you can track down the intensity of a shared knowledge, rather than generating yet another documentary edition in the programmed and hyper-mediatized confrontation from the G8 counter-summit. Elaborating a complicated and rhythmic sort of address via sound/image disjunctions, inexpensive video results and efficiency, the movie declares its very own exile from the biopolitical space-time exactly where nothing at all at any time takes place. The crisis it announces could be the sudden return of heritage, but this time devoid of characters or a story, and of the politics with out topics.
Provisionally aligning itself with all the so-called Black Bloc' motion with all the arrogance of its discourse as well because the drive and design of their resistance Eliminate Yourself is surely an encounter with emerging, non-instituted or identity-less varieties of protest that refuse the representational politics in the official Left. Edited within the aftermath of 9/11 - a period of doubt, reflection and heightened protection actions worldwide the film also attempts to measure the unusual distance these occasions have crossed, and the growing repression underneath which the sensation of civil war' has long been buried while in the meantime. A filmed essay that works by betraying its personal type, Eliminate Oneself tries to approach what on earth is most open in an event, as opposed to capturing and completing it as something recognizable.
list of screenings to date
2005
- Globalization / War , Institute for Modern Artwork (ICA), Boston
- Within the poem about really like you don't write the word enjoy , Centre for Modern Art, Glasgow
- Argosfestival 2005 , Argos Centre for Modern Art, Brussels
- Hammer Forum: Bernadette Corporation , Hammer Museum, Los angeles
- Documentary Frontiers , Union Theater, University of Wisconson, Milwaukee
- Seminal performs in the 20th century: Activism , Whitechapel Artwork ##############, London
- Artistes et Cinéastes Entre Fiction et Documentaire
Tiffany Rings, organisé par le Centre Pompidou au FIPA-Biarritz (Festival International de la Production Audiovisuelle)
2004
- Get rid of Yourself and Saute Ma Ville
Tiffany Crystal, special screening for the duration of a Chantal Ackerman retrospective at Cinematexas, Austin, Texas
- Prospectif Cinéma , Centre Pompidou
- marx' gespenster / RAF' gespenster , Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK)
- New Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York
- FID hors murs , Marseille
2003
- Passerby , Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NYC
- What the ######## is Communism? , L'Institut Jean Vigo et L'Ecole Superieure d'art de Perpignan
- Plans to Desert the Overview , Hebbel Theater, Berlin
- Filmstudio der Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig
- Havana Biennale Video clip Program, Havana, Cuba
- Dresden Postplatz, Dresden
- Video 6: Real Utopia , Galerie fur Landschaftkunst, Hamburg
- Camera Novo , Festival International Documentaire
Tiffany Pendant, Marseille
- Film ############ (organized by the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
Tiffany & Co, Vienna
- Montag praxis , b-books, Berlin
- B-movie (organisé par l'école de Beaux arts Hambourg), Hambourg
- Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg
- PointLignePlan , la Fémis, Paris
2002
- Die Kraft der Negation , organisé par Diedrich Diedrichson, Theatre der Welt festival
Tiffany Outlet, Cologne et Berlin