THE BLUE LENSES
Credits
2-Channel Video Installationstarring
Ron Ward
Elisa Baxter
Lafawndah
with
Katrina Cunningham
Meg Heus
Artem Revin
also with
Ripon Kumar
Shaheen Mias
Jamal Jamal
Yousov Fali
Attabak Abbas
Richard Lawrence
Mohammad Hassan
Tarosh Das
Sumoor Das
Kofo, Usabi, Mani, Rafisul, Hanif, and Nadeem
monologue texts
by Nathaniel Axel
NY crew
camera: Jim Turner
lighting: Geoffrey Womack, Ben Hunt
audio tech: Chris Kilcullen
make-up effects: Greg Pikulski
production coordinator: Abigail Thomas
Set Building: Stacey Petty, Alex Russi, and Sawyer Mitchell
shoot location, NY
Westbeth Center for the Arts
55 Bethune Street, New York, NY 10014
UAE crew
camera: Richard Lennon
lighting: Ben Hunt
audio tech: Nolan Funk
line producer: Chani Gatto
associate producer/location manager: Amani Alsaied
PA: Charlotte de Bekker
AC: Koh Terai
casting, UAE: Chani Gatto, Shakbut Al Kaabi, Ahmed Hameed
shoot locations, UAE
Intermilan Gents, Abu Dhabi
Vivaldi Furniture, Abu Dhabi
Kuwashi Abayas, Abu Dhabi
Jazirat Al Hamra, Ras Al Khaimah
rentals
Abdul Qadir / Action Filmz
online edit
Andrew Ford, Stunning Cuts
film supported by
the New York University Research Challenge Fund
the Westbeth Center for the Arts
NYU Abu Dhabi
and Marianne Boesky Gallery
special thanks to
Amani Alsaied, Marianne Boesky, Amos Katz, Steve Neil,
Jennifer Roth, and Sanjay Thakur
Run time: 19:02 minutes
Filmed at Westbeth, NYC and Abu Dhabi, UAE 2014-2015
2015
Runtime: 19:02 Minutes
Excerpt from: Michael Wilson’s ‘Sue de Beer, Boesky East’, Artforum (print edition), November 2015
"He never talked about where he was from. At the funeral, that was the most I ever heard about his life." So begins the spoken narrative of Sue de Beer's new two-channel video The Blue Lenses, 2014, which tells the story of Daniel, a con artist, in part through the account of a young woman. Borrowing the title of a 1959 short story by the British author Daphne du Maurier in which a woman's eye surgery mysteriously causes her to see people with fearsome animal heads in place of their own, de Beer's beguiling tale also deals in confused appearances and assumed roles.