Pierre Huyghe : Untitled (human mask) / Mark Lewis.
By: Lewis, Mark [author]
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BookSeries: One work: Publisher: London : Afterall Books, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 125 pages : photographs (chiefly colour) ; 21 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846382130 (paperback).Subject(s): Huyghe, Pierre, 1962- Untitled (human mask) | Huyghe, Pierre, 1962- -- Criticism and interpretation | Experimental films -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 700.92 HUY Summary: "An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry. Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask) combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it." -- Library of Congress.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 700.92 HUY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00232270 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask) , which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry.
Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask) combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-125).
"An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic Untitled (Human Mask), which asks whether our human future may be one of remnants and mimicry. Pierre Huyghe's 2014 film Untitled (Human Mask) combines images of a post-apocalyptic world (actual footage of deserted streets close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of March 2011) with a haunting scene of a monkey working in an empty restaurant wearing a human mask and a wig. She's a girl! The flat, emotionless almost automaton state of the mask and the artificial glossy hair topped even with a child's bow, suggests that she, the monkey, might be a character from Japanese Noh theatre. But there's no music. Instead Huyghe's film evinces the terrifying possibility that our own, human, future might just be one of remnants and mimicry; that the deserted streets of Fukushima and the monkey's recognizable, alienating chimeric performance is all that might survive us. Untitled (Human Mask) presents a pluperfect world with extinction the endgame for a civilization that cared little for the present, dreaming only of a future that inevitably and necessarily could not include it." -- Library of Congress.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- What's it Like to be Almost Like Something Else? (p. 9)
- Untitled (p. 10)
- Disposing of Leftovers (p. 14)
- Prologue and Disaster Mise en Scène (p. 25)
- The Abduction of Gesture (p. 28)
- Inside (p. 29)
- Singerie (p. 40)
- Back to the Restaurant (p. 44)
- Film Consciousness (p. 52)
- We are the Invention of Animals (p. 56)
- Conclusion (p. 59)
- Notes (p. 122)