Film duo Caskraker exhibits video art Amazone Born Digital in gallery Frederiek van der Vlist

From 18 to 28 August, the young film duo Caskraker will be exhibiting their video art installation Amazone Born Digital in the renowned Frederiek van der Vlist gallery in the center of Leiden. Video art questions the eternal value of digital art. Analog vs. digital art: who is the winner?

Moving paintings
The non-narrative images of a woman dancing underwater in Amazone Born Digital are like paintings. Pure in shape and color. Ready to hang on the wall. But the images move, they even react to each other. It is not analogue art, it is art in the digital age: fleeting and always in motion. In the Leiden gallery, surrounded by paintings and sculptures, Caskraker's moving images come into their own. A field of tension immediately arises between analogue and digital art. To further reinforce this field of tension, Caskraker performs a playful trick; the video images are 'analogised' and converted into book form. The book, just like the film, is part of an exhibition in which analogue and digital art compete with each other.

Cascracker
The two men behind Caskraker are Casper van der Kaaij (1972, filmmaker, visual artist) and Miquel Gonzalez (1972, filmmaker, scientist). In 2006, the duo won the audience award for their short film Talent at the Leids Film Festival. A year later, at the same festival, they screened their film Three windows and a door. In 2010 Caskraker made a documentary about painter Willem van Scheijndel. 30 years of Passion for Painting was screened continuously for three months in a monumental building on the Breestraat in Leiden during an exhibition by Willem van Scheijndel. At the beginning of this year, Caskraker released the short film The Muse Cyprus as part of the European art project 'Athena and the Muse' by visual artist Peter Peereboom. Caskraker is currently working on a documentary about the new theater tour of the band Gruppo Sportivo from The Hague.

Dance and couture
Amazone Born Digital was developed in collaboration with dancer Anouk Cappuyns
and fashion designer Peter George d'Angelino Tap. Cappuyns graduated from the Stedelijk
Institute for Ballet in Antwerp. She danced with various companies such as Het Ballet van Vlaanderen. Couturier Peter George d'Angelino Tap is responsible for the costumes in the film. His lavish designs are regularly featured on catwalks. He exhibited in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague.

Opening
Caskraker's exhibition Amazone Born Digital will be officially opened on Thursday 18 August by Ronnie Gerschtanowitz. Dutch feature film producer, and, as the grandson of the founder, director of the Tuschinsky Theaters in Amsterdam for many years.

More information about Amazone Born Digital check:
Caskraker: www.caskraker.com
Gallery Frederiek van der Vlist: www.galeriefrederiekvdvlist.nl



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