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Sundown (2023)

In Sundown, the acclaimed Canadian video artist Steve Reinke reflects on mortality and overlapping timescales by way of Nietzsche, Gordon Lightfoot, and other markers of moments in a life, whether retrospective exhibitions or new tattoos. ...

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An Arrow Pointing to a Hole (2020)

In this wry confessional video, Steve Reinke appears—shirtless and lavishly tattooed—in a basement, playing archival clips and delivering arch disquisitions on his filmmaking and the ways in which images represent his engagement with the world. Mortali ...

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When We Were Monsters (2020)

The starting point was a video tape of projection footage made by the artist Gretchen Bender, who turned clinical images of infections, deformities, and morbid injuries into an abject flicker film. Reinke and Richards expanded Bender's medical gaze into a ...

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Libidinal Empathy (2019)

A found footage montage of young men who elicit, in various ways, an empathic response from the viewer that also carries a strongly libidinal charge. Philosopher Levinas speaks about the face, and what it requires of us. ...

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Video to Placate Artaud (2019)

A videotape to placate the 20th century artist Antonin Artaud, who was not very calm. Certainly transgression and nervous energies/violent impulses once went hand-in-hand, but perhaps today requires a calmer, more considered approach. ...

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Devotional Cinema (2019)

The artist is inspired the day after seeing Nathaniel Dorsky's "Arboretum Cycle" to make a video engaging with the natural, botanical world. Thinking, as usual, of the difference between poetry and philosophy. ...

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Semen Is the Piss of Dreams (2017)

In Reinke's latest provocation, the words of author Hervé Guibert are made flesh through a montage of "human events" that work to collapse the boundaries between the private and public, the perverse and the prosaic. ...

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What weakens the flesh is the flesh itself (2017)

A film tribute, portrait and investigation of the set designer, photographer and actor Albrecht Becker. Staying with Becker's self-portraits, artists Steve Reinke and James Richards pair public and private images in ways that challenge and re-signify one a ...

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Atheists Need Theology, Too (2016)

"Atheists Need Theology, Too, the first of seven videos, begins with a poem by Emily Dickinson, To fill a Gap / Insert the Thing that caused it — . All of Human Events, then, could be read as a gloss on the poem. Or, one could choose — or be compelled ...

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A Boy Needs a Friend (2015)

Steve Reinke ostensibly turns to the subjects of friendship and intimacy in A Boy Needs A Friend, in particular investigating the notion of queer Nietzschean friendship. Using his signature dry voice-over monologue to tie together an eclectic array of disp ...

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Rib Gets in the Way (2014)

Reinke's excess of images, language, connections and suggestions creates a cinematic essay on life's questions. Philosophy, archiving, disease cells, nocturnal animals and art are just a few of the ingredients of his work, which is replete with humour and ...

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A Day for Cake and Accidents (2013)

A short film that features a cast of animal characters -- each of a different, though often indeterminate, species -- who struggle with impending astrological despair and engage in absurdist dialogs, confessing various melancholic desires and transgressive ...

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The Tiny Ventriloquist (2012)

"In the first shot of Reinke's new feature length video, we see the desert landscape of the American Southwest from a car window. Though shaky and handheld, it is an immediately recognizable and iconic image: the great vistas of Hollywood westerns, of Amer ...

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Everybody (2009)

Animals debate the sticky subject of body dysmorphia and the merits of reconstructive surgery in this short animation. "Jessie Mott wrote the script for this, recorded the voices and made the drawings. I constructed the soundtrack and animated her drawin ...

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Hobbit Love Is the Greatest Love (2007)

A desktop video in five parts that modestly propose ways of existing with or against history and politics. ...

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Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp) (2006)

Continues the journey from the final sequence of Ask the Insects. We turn away from the graveyard, enter the schoolyard, approach the old crippled tree spinning and sit under it to draw a little cartoon for the New Yorker, while — through some sort of te ...

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Anal Masturbation and Object Loss (2003)

The artist decides to found his own art school and begins by assembling materials for the library. Finding too many words are available, he glues together the unnecessary pages of books. ...

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Andy (1998)

In a peculiar combination of eroticism and design asthetics, an attractive young man pleasures himself in his living room while a disembodied voice describes the decor. ...

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The Hundred Videos #1 (1996)

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for ...

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The Hundred Videos #2 (1996)

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for ...

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The Hundred Videos #3 (1996)

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for ...

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The Hundred Videos #4 (1996)

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for ...

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The Hundred Videos #5 (1996)

The Hundred Videos is a project undertaken by prolific video artist Steve Reinke, including 100 video works made from 1989-1996. Discussing death, sex, the body, philosophy, and contemporary art, The Hundred Videos defines a unique style of video-essay for ...

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Charming Mutt (1993)

I once had a lover who would occasionally transform into a dog — and not even a purebred. Instead, some patchwork mutt of scrappy fur — but not without charm, not without beauty. It happened when I rubbed his prostate a certain way, and then I'd be tra ...

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Joke (Version One) (1992)

There is no void. The world is full. ...

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Squeezing Sorrow from an Ashtray (1992)

"We know the air is filled with vibrations we can't hear. We can't consider environment as an object. We know that it's a process While in the case of the astray, we are indeed dealing with an object. It would be extremely interesting to place it in a litt ...

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Lonely Boy (1992)

"Lonely Boy" condenses and combines two films: Wolf Koenig's classic NFB documentary on Paul Anka (also titled Lonely Boy) and a classic gay porn loop from the late 70's The Summer of Kip Noll. ...

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An Arrow Pointing to a Hole (2020)

In this wry confessional video, Steve Reinke appears—shirtless and lavishly tattooed—in a basement, playing archival clips and delivering arch disquisitions on his filmmaking and the ways in which images represent his engagement with the world. Mortali ...

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