...because Superglue is forever!

Two young girls reenact scenes and narrate love stories with happy or unhappy endings from films, commercials and YouTube videos. Their narrations and representations are intertwined with scenes from popular movies, clips from news programs and the lyrics of love songs. Grimonprez's video ...because Superglue is forever (12', 2011), screened in Alatza Imaret, is a study on the history of the happy ending; it is also a study on the construction of the modern subject through both the condition of imposed consumption of communication, technology and feelings, and the complete dominance of images, which are almost always disconnected and fragmentary. In the film, this puzzle of images that we see, and repeat, is interrupted by brief silences, during which we watch… Read more...