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Re-Opening / Keren Cytter: "Vengeance - Episode I" (2012)

19 September - 09 December 2012


Keren Cytter is a video artist, filmmaker and writer. With her narrative yet radically experimental videos, made quickly and with few resources, which she also writes, films and edits herself, Keren Cytter is now recognized as an artist who has radically innovated and expanded the language of the medium. She bases her predominantly short video works on simple plots, usually well-known or even clichéd personal interactions, around which she writes a script that presents the plot in an entirely deconstructed manner. During the editing, the story is further taken apart (in terms of both audio and video) and pieced back together to form an autonomous video work that breaks with all possible narrative conventions; spoken word, voice-over, subtitles, roles, actors and text are used in a non-hierarchical and asynchronous manner. She further borrows styles, formats, plots, and story elements from both cinema and media culture, and television series. Despite all these conceptual and technical innovations, her work remains readable as a great audio-visual document on our social neuroses and visual culture. "Vengeance (Working title)", is the first episode of a series of videoworks in which Keren Cytter experiments with narrative and visual techniques taken from traditional soapseries. At present, only three of the seven planned episodes are finished. "Vengeance" is the first videowork in which Cytter takes one specific filmgenre as a starting point for a multi-episode series.