On an Exotic Adventure…

  • Home 2 by Olaf Breuning & Blondes in the Jungle by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn
  • Saturday, December 4, 8pm
  • CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave. down the lane

Part of Fall 2010


Swiss-born, New York-based artist Olaf Breuning’s epic video Home 2 (2007, 30 min.) is the sequel to his diary of an enthusiastic if narcissistic jet-setter from 2004. However, unlike the first instalment, in which the narrator-protagonist recounts his misadventures from the safety of a hotel room, this time we follow him to what appear to be Japan, Papua New Guinea and the Swiss Alps. Our anti-hero has a particular fondness for playing dress-up tricks with the locals; he gleefully encounters “the natives” but never breaks free from his own fantasies.

Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn’s Blondes in the Jungle (2009, 48 min.) is an art-film comedy about a hunt for the Fountain of Youth, featuring three blond American teenagers exploring the jungles of 1980s Honduras and buying drugs, harming nature and having magical encounters. Tons of landscape footage, a meditation on Mayan archaeology and a heavy TV teen vibe highlight this very funny impulse-buy spiritual adventure.

 

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

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Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Home 2 by Olaf Breuning

Home 2

Blondes in the Jungle by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

Blondes in the Jungle

Blondes in the Jungle by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

Blondes in the Jungle

Blondes in the Jungle by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

Blondes in the Jungle

Blondes in the Jungle by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn

Blondes in the Jungle