BLOODSPORT REMIX

Posted by ajs on June 10, 2009 at 6:54 am.

BloodSport Remix (2007)
[A] comic, postmodernist commentary on Hollywood film images and violence in sports- Kansas City Star (March 1st, 2007)

A multi-channel installation, BloodSport Remix takes as its starting point the 1988 American martial arts classic, BloodSport, staring Jean-Cluade van Damme. By re-editing the film in non-linear, spatially oriented manner cuts through the nostalgic fog to reconsider the film’s seductive elevation of violence. An adolescence machismo fantasy was to fight in the deadly and secretive tournament, the Kumite, to avenge lost honor. Later though an adult’s gaze Van Damme’s buxom, sweat-coved, screaming, flying splits appear silly or even erotic.

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