THE DARK HEARTS
Credits
2-Channel Video Installationstarring
Mimi Lestor
Julien Orlow
Crew
1st A.D.: Ivette Zighelboim
Camera 1: Pawel Grajnert
Camera 2 / Gaffer: Ian Vollmer
Audio Technician: Alex Portugal
Still Photographer: Stephen Hilger / Sue de Beer
Casting: Ian Cooper / Sue de Beer
Soundtrack and Instrumentals: Andy Comer
Online edit at the Outpost, Brooklyn
Online Editor: Ryan Fenson-Hood
Filmed in Brooklyn, NY, 2003
Support provided by
Gucci
Additional Support provided by
The Outpost, Cuts and Burns Artists Residency, Brooklyn, NY
Run time: 6 minutes
The Dark Hearts first exhibited at Statements Basel Miami, presented by Sandroni Rey Gallery, December 2004
2003
Runtime: 5:03 Minutes
Excerpt from: Bruce Hainley’s ‘Teen Angle, the Art of Sue de Beer’, Artforum January, 2004
In the lovely closing moment of Sue de Beer's most recent video, The Dark Hearts, 2003, a girl in the driver's seat picks up a gloomy boy from his house for a runaway spin to a blue-screen make-out glen. The goth kiddo Adonis takes off his studded and dangling-chain leather collar and puts it around the girl's neck; she takes off her double-stranded necklace of fake, pearly beads and embraces his neck with it. They daintily peck each other. A skull decal looks out at the boy from the passenger-side dashboard. The horror? The horror is the world they live in, which necessitates, instead of diary keeping, making "morgue entries" to figure out their lives. This is the world that's been left to them: darkness transacting in between boy parts and girl parts, in between loving and leaving, in between teen loneliness and adult existence.