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PERFECT, GENUINE, COMPLETE, CRYSTALLINE, CLEAR
(RE-MAKE OF APOCALYPSE NOW) – 2008
 

The dialogue of the 1979 movie – Apocalypse Now – played out on Amsterdam’s Amstel River by actors who had studied ‘method acting’. The project forms a performative body of work including text, video and photography. The background to which consists of an analysis of the nature of modern-day imperialism as it operates through the media to convey its predominance – even when in the guise of criticism.

One variation of the work is in the HDV format, where the footage is played in real time, alternating between two cameras and including footage from in between takes, such as mood shot of actors in character and of crew. This version includes all the rehearsals and re-takes of the actors’ lines, but mutes the sound of the footage that does not contain lines from the script of the boat’s crew.
 

• Scene 2
  Duration: 50 minutes
  Actors and crew:
  Willard – Georges Devdariani
  Chef – Jasper van der Heijden
  Lance – Maarten Hutten
  Clean – Fransceso Camacho
  Chief – Willem Hoebink
  Camera & Location sound – Battal Kurt & Brian McKenna

 

 

• Scenes 3
  Duration: 85 minutes
  Actors and crew:
  Lance – Maarten Hutten
  Director – Gijs Wahl
  Priest – Gijs Wahl
  Man with megaphone – Gijs Wahl
  Camera & Location sound – Battal Kurt & Brian McKenna

   

 

• Scenes 4
  Duration: 25 minutes
  Actors and crew:
  Willard Georges Devdariani
  Chef – Jasper van der Heijden
  Lance – Maarten Hutten
  Clean – Fransceso Camacho
  Chief – Willem Hoebink
  Camera & Location sound – Battal Kurt & Brian McKenna