The Dynamists , (original 11'00)

The Dynamists is a video work featuring Angelo Perrotti—a Belgian musician and poet active in the 1980s—and twelve local teenagers. Inspired by Perrotti’s vocals in the underground band The System, the video centres on the broken voice, using disruption as a recurring motif. The broken voice refers to the shifts between vocal registers, a phase commonly associated with puberty and adolescence. In the video, language fractures, multiple voices rupture or shift in tone, and various frequencies interfere with the sequencing of images. Alluding to the coming-of-age genre and its ‘rites of passage,’ the work seeks to capture the transitional instability of adolescence, proposing disruption and conflict as essential components of growth.

Supported by:

  • Video Power

Presented at

  1. Exhibition, New Songs For Old Cities, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, BE
  2. Exhibition, Art Rotterdam, NL
  3. Screening, SAVORR, Norwich, UK
  4. Screening, ODD, Bucharest, RO
  5. Screening, Kunsttour, Maastricht, NL
  6. Screening, L1 Limburg, NL
  7. Screening, European Art Cinema Day, Aachen, NL
  8. Screening, SXRVXVE, New York, USA
  9. Screening, Film and Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles, USA
  10. Screening, Gijon International Film Festival, SP
  11. Screening, Tick Tack, Antwerp, BE
  12. Screening, Uit Feest, Utrecht, NL
  13. Screening, ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond, NL
  14. Screening, Lumiere Cinema, Maastricht, NL
  15. Screening, IKOB Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen, BE