THE QUICKENING
Credits
Single Channel Video Installationstarring
Gina V. D'Orio
Travis Jeppesen
Annika Line Trost
with
Haluk Atalayman as "The Wolf"
and Willy Rachow as "The Buffalo"
crew
D.P.: Shai Levy
Camera / Lighting Assistant: Gerlind Becker
Audio Technic: Klaus Barm
Hanging: Wolfgang Stegemann / Martin Goeres
Psychedelic Lighting Designer: Jens Höhne
Set Building: Sue de Beer / Haluk Atalayman / Chris Krönke
Gins and Annika's Costumes: Cornelia Wentzel
Casting & Dramaturgy: Miriam Stein
Online Editor: Can Elbasi
soundtrack and instrumentals
"Howling and Beats"
performed by Andy Comer
'Annie's Song' & 'Rocky Mountain High Colorado'
performed by Andy Comer
recorded by Rob Christiansen
Jeppesen Monologues
excerpted from 'Written 20 Years After the Novel'
Joris Karl Huysmans' preface for the 20 year
anniversary re-printing of 'Against Nature'
D'Orio Monologue
Excerpted from 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God'
Johnathan Edwards
'The Quickening' shot at Hadlichstr 44, Pankow, Berlin, 2006
2006
Runtime: 28:59 Minutes
Excerpt from: David Velasco’s ‘Sue de Beer, Marianne Boesky Gallery’, Artforum, February 2007
Sue de Beer's latest video, "The Quickening", 2006, is a morality tale without a moral, a murder mystery with no solution. It's set in Puritan New England - although de Beer seems unconcerned with creating the realist mis-en-scene of the conventional period piece. The movie puts incongruity to use as a narrative strategy. When John Denver launches into the second stanza of "The Eagle and the Hawk" following the unceremonious hanging of one of the characters, the music is jarring, but the effect is oddly felicitous.
The story of "the Quickening" is fairly simple, beginning and ending with the unexplained murder of the two female leads (both of whom are chased, stabbed, then hung by an unidentified creature).