Club Moral 052 - Now I Am Death [part 1/2]

"Now I Am Death" is a Super8 movie by DDV. Originally titled "Now I Am Death, the Destroyer of the World", it was originally made for an exhibition "Young Artists from Antwerpen in Gent" in 1983. The exhibition was spread over three venues: the Campo Santo cemetary in Sint-Amandsberg, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle and De Gele Zaal in Gent.

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While the people were walking around on the opening of the exhibition on the Campo Santo cemetary, I was digging a grave underneath a tree. When it was finished I lay down and the grave was covered with earth and finished with chains and a cross by Ross Cannon of ProduKtion. I stayed buried for about 45 minutes until everybody had to leave to go to the second part of the exhibition by a special bus.
While everybody was on the other location, I transported the grave to the third and final location of the exhibition. There the grave was reconstructed, me laying upside down in it, with a chain attached to my feet.
As the people came in, main lights were turned off and the film and a slide-series were started. Then I was pulled out by my feet out of the grave by use of a pulley by Paul Hurst of ProduKtion. My body was hanging in front of the projectors, images projected onto human body. In a microphone I repeated the words ""Now I Am Death, the Destroyer of the World". The sound went into a synthesizer, treated by Paul Hurst, distorting the words in loud hellish sound-bursts.
(description of performance by DDV)

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This film is a special re-arranged shoot for home-video made by Club Moral and V2 in 1985. Camera by AMVK & Alex Adriaansens. Sound by Club Moral.

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"Now I Am Death" became a classic on Club Moral's repertoire and was performed live on several occasions, each time with DDV hanging upside down doing the vocals. The slides used in the original performance (and barely visible on the movie) included works by AMVK.

Ross Cannon died in his native Tasmania in 1992 (November 16, 1957 - May 11, 1992), the whereabouts of Paul Hurst are still unknown.

The newspaper article writer BdB is most probably Bart De Baere, in the meantime director of Reformuhka.

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Film & Animation

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• Club Moral
• noise
• art

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