The Apartment is a reconstruction of the main location in Roman Polanski’s film Repulsion (1965). For the Apartment the set of of the main location is reconstructed in such a way that one could make a remake of this scene, but in one single shot.
Nathan answered an ad to join Oliver Herring for some spontaneous art making sessions. ‘Nathan (Hotel room)’ is by definition a solo, but it’s also a pas de deux between dancer and camera.
The room shown in the movie is one out of four rooms for the installation ‘untitled’ (2011). Savic-Gecan made this installation for the Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL) exhibition Melanchotopia. The text on the wall explains: “Every change in temperature in the city of Rotterdam causes one of the spaces in Witte de With to open and close.”
Stills from the video ‘God bless America’ (2002) by Tadasu Takamine.
Tadasu Takamine and his lovely assistant shared a room with a huge clay face for eighteen consecutive days. Before the eye of the camera, they ate, slept, read, had sex and made continuous changes to the face, animating it to keep time with a scratchy, halting recording of the American patriotic classic “God Bless America”.
