Sensual Disruption

They want to seduce us. Music videos have been designed to tap into our attention since their creation, and some dig deeper into our memory than a catchy earworm. Like a leech, the alliance of image and sound attaches itself to our sensory receptors.

Over the decades, this genre has constantly transformed, producing works that challenge traditional visualisation strategies and aim not only to seduce but also to disrupt our sensory perception. We want to trace such disruptive forms in this programme.

We will encounter bodies that waft through galaxies. Bodies that are measured, modulated and cut up by machines until they themselves mutate into posthumanist hybrid beings. Parasitic and political bodies. Bodies that our eyes forget and bodies that remain forever invisible. Surveillance images that are appropriated in a resistant way. Archival images that collide with fragments of diverse provenance. And in between, traces of sensuality that seek another future.

Charlie Bendisch was born New Year's Eve 1994 in Bielefeld. He studied Film Studies, Journalism and Audiovisual Arts in Berlin, Guadalajara and Bogotá. He has worked for various exhibition projects (e.g. Extended Compositions) and film festivals (e.g. Berlin Critics' Week) and writes freelance about cinema and music. His texts appear in nachdemfilm and Jungle World, among others. For the past two years, he has been publishing the Visualizing Music column at ALLGOOD on the best music videos of the month together with Till Wilhelm. He is currently researching cinematic monuments.

The event will take place in the Cinémathèque.