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Sacrifice

Meiro Koizumi / JP, 2018 / 45 min.

In this VR work, a young Iraqi talks about a tragedy that befell him. Meiro Koizumi examines the dynamics of power within families and between nations. He makes palpable the tension between staged and authentic emotions, and between duty and longing. Dutch premiere.

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Work by Meiro Koizumi is currently also featured in Eye”s exhibition A Tale of Hidden Histories.

Details

Director

Meiro Koizumi

Production year

2018

Country

JP

Original title

Sacrifice

Length

45 min.

Part of

A Tale of Hidden Histories

Truth, facts, memories, reality: are they all constructions? The artists Broomberg & Chanarin, Omer Fast, Chia-Wei Hsu and Meiro Koizumi deploy not only film and video but also slide projections, photographs and sound to investigate and ‘unmask’ the past.

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Chia-Wei Hsu, Drones, Frosted Bats and the Testimony of the Deceased (2017)
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