Kalin’s short video works function both as visual poems and as alternative music videos. With their astute conjunctions of image, music and text, these tapes respond to issues of sexuality and human interaction in the 1990s, more than a decade into the AIDS crisis. In finally destroy us, Kalin uses found film footage, home movies, and haunting pop music (Annie Lenox singing Cole Porter) to poignantly recall moments of love, shared and lost. The title is taken from Virginia Woolf: ‘But these meetings, these partings, finally destroy us’.
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ACMI Identifier
B1000107
Language
English
Audience classification
unclassified
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White and Colour
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image, black and white and colour and audio
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan