Babeth Mondini-VanLoo

An experimental double-screen film exploring chance and causality through the work of Daniel Spoerri and the European Nouveau Réalisme movement. Featuring encounters with the art of Christo, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, and others, the film uses associative montage and unexpected juxtapositions to examine the relationship between artistic creation and randomness. The original lineup of the British experimental group Cabaret Voltaire composed and performed its soundtrack.

Through her work for the magazine Search and Destroy in San Francisco, Mondini-VanLoo met several prominent punk bands (including the Sex Pistols) whom she interviews and films. Intrigued by Holidays in the Sun, Johnny Rotten’s song about the Berlin Wall, the next time she is in Berlin she clandestinely films the wall and includes edited footage of the Sex Pistol’s last concert with Sid Vicious at Winterland in San Francisco.

The film consists of unprocessed, original 16mm material, which VanLoo shot during the Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding contest in the 1970s, and comes from an unfortunately lost art installation. Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented here as a living work of art, gives his vision on classical sculpture, body and mind, ideal beauty and more.

A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our alienation.

This digitised 16mm film shows the making of a death mask for the then-still-young Jules Deelder. Mondini-VanLoo filmed the process in 1979, as part of the Bandaged Poets series by New York author Ira Cohen. Saxophonist Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) composed the soundtrack. Images and sound keep Deelder’s spirit alive.

An experimental double-screen film exploring chance and causality through the work of Daniel Spoerri and the European Nouveau Réalisme movement. Featuring encounters with the art of Christo, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, and others, the film uses associative montage and unexpected juxtapositions to examine the relationship between artistic creation and randomness. The original lineup of the British experimental group Cabaret Voltaire composed and performed its soundtrack.

Through her work for the magazine Search and Destroy in San Francisco, Mondini-VanLoo met several prominent punk bands (including the Sex Pistols) whom she interviews and films. Intrigued by Holidays in the Sun, Johnny Rotten’s song about the Berlin Wall, the next time she is in Berlin she clandestinely films the wall and includes edited footage of the Sex Pistol’s last concert with Sid Vicious at Winterland in San Francisco.

The film consists of unprocessed, original 16mm material, which VanLoo shot during the Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding contest in the 1970s, and comes from an unfortunately lost art installation. Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented here as a living work of art, gives his vision on classical sculpture, body and mind, ideal beauty and more.

A clarification of the '60s and its plastic society; taking archetypes of the American landscape to deal with the search for human identity and our alienation.

This digitised 16mm film shows the making of a death mask for the then-still-young Jules Deelder. Mondini-VanLoo filmed the process in 1979, as part of the Bandaged Poets series by New York author Ira Cohen. Saxophonist Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) composed the soundtrack. Images and sound keep Deelder’s spirit alive.