Outside
14 min / HD video / 2017
Outside traverses two metabolic paths in the attempt to forge a reciprocal relationship between the two. Moving from the metabolism of the human body to the metabolism of waste infrastructures, the film creates an inverted exchange wherein the concealment of waste inside the human body turns to the concealment of the human body inside waste. The boundary that divides waste from production would seem to contain an underlying set of moral implications. The film considers these as situated somewhere between law enforcement and class structure as defined through labor positions.
Story / Edit / Sound: Beny Wagner
Sound mastering: Rob Driessen
Co-production: VideoPower
Awards:
Honorary award at Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, 2018
Conversation with Alicja Melzacka
Presentations:
2021 Adrift: Sasha Livtintseva and Beny Wagner, Los Angeles Film Forum, USA
2020 Projections | Les paralléles du SUD: Eaux d’artifice, Videodrome2, Marseilles, France
2020 East London Cable TV Dinner E04, Online program
2020 Noise Bombing, Online exhibition
2019 Disagreeable Body, School, Vienna
2019 Blue Screen: Toon Fibbe, Level Five, Brussels
2019 Video Power verovert Limburg, Venlo/Roermond Cinema release
2019 Video Power Premieres, Lumiere Cinema, Maastricht
2018 Interstice Without Words, Paaygah, Tehran
2018 Recover the Ether, Curated by Microlights, The Open, Milwaukee
2018 Gijon International Film Festival, Gijon, Spain
2018 Eindhoven Film Festival, Eindhoven
2018 November Film Festival, London
2018 Between Relating, curated by Jesse McLean, Microlights at HDTS, Wonder Valley, California
2018 3rd Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow
2018 Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, Paris
2018 Digesture, Very Project Space, Berlin
2018 Videopower Night, Destination Unknown, Venlo, NL
2018 FRONT Triennial: An American City, Cleveland
2018 Tetevo Film Festival, Tetevo, Macedonia
2018 Invisible Invaders, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
2018 Extracted and Circulated: Empathy (with Sasha Litvintseva), Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
2018 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
2018 Outside/Eye Farm, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam (solo)
2018 Immanent Cloud, Nocturnal Reflections, Milan
2018 State of Statelessness, ISELP, Brussels
2018 Artistic Research Will Eat Itself, SAR 9th International Conference for Artistic Research, Plymouth
2018 Extracted and Circulated: Material Exchange (with Graeme Arnfield), Close-Up Cinema, London
2017 Outside / Asbestos (with Sasha Litvintseva), AM180, Prague
Installation view, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, Amsterdam, 2018