autoportrait (2017) Kostenlos Anschauen

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• 2017

selbstporträt is a silent potrait of Diamond Reynolds-shot-on 35mm black and white film. In July 2016, Reynolds broadcast, via Facebook Live, the moments after the murder of her partner Philando Castile by a police officer during a traffic stop in Minnesota. Reynolds' video widely circulated online and amassed over six million views. In November 2016, with the support of Chisenhale Gallery, artist Luke Willis Thompson established a conversation with Reynolds, and her lawyer, and invited Reynolds to work with him on the production of an artwork. Thompson proposed to make an aesthetic response that could act as a 'sister-bild' to Reynolds' video broadcast. Thompson and Reynolds agreed to produce a film together, to be presented in London, and which would break with the well-known image of Reynolds, caught in a moment of violence and distributed within a constant flow of news.