In The Soldier's Head (2015)
By Christine Rebet
In the Soldier's Head, 2015 16mm transferred to HD 4:25 Edition of 5 plus II AP Camera: John Donnely Soundtrack: Matteo Nasini, Algis Kisys Editing: Kevin Messman Film transfer: John Rizzo Animation assistants: Louise Pignier-leroul, Julie de Halleux, Aude David Animation Intern: Michelle Kramer Thanks to: Greg Ford, Birgit Rathsmann, Dorothee Charles, Fanny Rolland, Francois Darasse, Joel Schlemowitz, Christopher Gorski "Beyond these erotics, it was clear to me that I wanted to talk about mental disruption as a figure for the collective experience of colonization, and that I wanted to carry this out through the disruption of the animation itself." - Christine Rebet as told to Joanna Fiduccia for Artforum, 2015 A powerful animism and energy is evident in Rebet's five-minute, hand-drawn animation, "In the Soldier's Head," which flows like the delusions conjured by a young soldier within an empty desert landscape. In the animation Rebet gives her viewer an intensely personal perspective on historical traumas, reinterpreted through the lands, bodies and minds that are subject to them. The film depicts the delusions flowing from a mind ravaged by violence: a vision grown from the i…
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