Directed, filmed and editing by Pedro Matias, Subtitles by Anja Masling, Voice-over by Angelo Custodio, Text by Pedro Matias Special thanks to: Judith Leysner, Anja Masling, Angelo Custodio and Arthur Guilleminot With the support of De Nachtegaal (collaboration with CBKzuidoost, Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie and Sandberg Instituut), NEVERNEVERLAND and Amsterdams fonds voor de kunst. This video work aimed to understand the current capitalistic mentality and its repercussions in contemporary bodies, sexuality and our surroundings. The ‘spectacle’ of pop-culture created a boom of successful, referential, and to the eyes of some, perfect envied bodies. These perfect bodies become the idol of millions, role models, but aren’t we worshipping marketed products? Aren’t we aiming the virtual rather than the real? Under a sleeping pill, our bodies became silicone and fat; our lives a plastic dystopian reality. The almost inexistent body in the frame of this video reveals what is currently relevant: our products, our consumerism, our display. Even without desiring it, we are plastic, we are consuming, we are displayed. This work is about objectification, an ode to all the plastic brothers that now start to awake. > Honorary Jury Mention at International Video Art Festival “Now&After” (Moscow)
