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Il banchiere

The banker

Digital color

03' 07'' (Ita Sub)

03' 16'' (Eng sub)

2019

https://vimeo.com/379954924 (Sub ITA)

https://vimeo.com/693488455 (Sub ENG)

Il banchiere (sub ITA)
Il banchiere (Sub ENG)

The piece is a concrete portrayal of the child in the video’s mind and ways of thinking.
An extreme wish to collect every penny, down to the lowest value, the striking importance of every single coin that is thereby jealously stored in a piggy bank and then brought to the actual establishment is the main focus of this audiovisual piece.

The saving etiquette is throroughtly respected, an element of contraposition to our modern society that heavily encourages rash and reckless consumerism beyond belief instead. The child in the video, who is an emblem for the younger generation, is capitalistically forced into accumulating money without retain, pushing him even to steal pennies from a fountain
The spirit of capitalism enslaves, pushes to self-destruction, tearing through flesh and bone for mundane material goods, often only to wear a mask and play pretend.

The video was presented at the event Recipes for Actions in Kunsthal in Ghent on the 25th of March 2022 and at the event S.H.O.T.s #119 with an S (nomadic) at the Campus of LUCA School of Arts in Ghent on the 23th of December 2021.

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