Completed during studio residency at Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam
Recombination of United 93 (2006) video track and Salo (1975) subtitle track. Two films that re-write political history. Two films that are a reaction to the prevailing political moods of their time.
By extracting the subtitle of one film and inserting it into the video track of another film I am inviting the texts to communicate with each other. The image track and subtitle track are set together and begin from zero. Using chance as an arbiter, I cut together the sequences that resonate poetically, politically or visually to create a unified siamese twin of two films. United 93 is a political film that is attempting to write history. Salo is a reflection on the depravity and sadism of the fascistic mind. By combining these texts I hope to uncover a psychosexual reading of September 11 2001 and of these two provocative film texts.
“Emile Zile’s recent work recaptures confrontingly what is presented to us in the media. He recreates the images in a shape we do not know yet, giving the impression that the existing image is approached from behind. A revealing work from his hand is a film in which he has combined Pasolini’s ‘Salo’ with the feature film ‘United93′ about the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001. The subtitle of the one film has been given the sound and video track of the other. You don’t believe your ears. You don’t believe your eyes. This re-combination is so seamless that it is truly amazing, as if the scenarios of fiction and reality merge completely. You do not know any longer which is which.” – Alex de Vries, Amsterdam 2008
