Peter Tammer
My Belle, Hey marcel... Queen of the Night
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Original format 35mm, 16mm
Year 1983-1985
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Peter Tammer
Running time 57 min
Films
MY BELLE (1983) 20'
HEY MARCEL... (1984) 17'
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT (1985) 20'
Description
This DVD brings together three poetic and experimental short films that each explore, through very different visual and narrative forms, the tensions between intimacy and representation, movement and transformation, desire and loss. In My Belle, an impressionistic portrait of a performer caught between her private world and her stage life, the fragility of a divided identity is revealed. Hey Marcel..., inspired by Duchamp's title, unfolds a choreography of bodies in descent, a carnal cascade in perpetual metamorphosis. Finally, Queen of the Night offers a nocturnal poem where a man's quest, fascinated by an elusive feminine figure, becomes a luminous dance between attraction, mystery, and destruction. Together, these three films form a visual and sensory journey where portrait, movement, and myth intertwine.