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You Face God and the Camera at the Same Time
by Margaret Haines
2016, 10′
Presented at VISIO. European Identities. New Geographies in Artists’ Film and Video (2018)
Courtesy the artist
The work is a retelling of Genet’s 1956 play The Balcony set within Amsterdam’s Hilton Hotel during the summer of 2016. The script includes Feminist theorist Kate Millett’s critique of the play from her seminal book Sexual Politics (1970), and is performed by artist Sands Murray Wassink and Clara Amaral as the photographers and Anna Maria Pinaka and Geo Wyeth as the prostitute Chantal, the embodiment of the spirit of the revolution.
Margaret Haines studied at École des Beaux Arts Paris and Concordia University, Montreal and received her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. In 2015-2016 she has been a resident at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Her latest films are multifaceted meandering narratives riddled with philosophical investigation. Haines’s frame oscillates between a myriad of traditional cinema styles from Hollywood fiction film to cinéma vérité. The films are rife with colliding references to the works of Jean Genet Kate Millet Adorno and include allusions to ancient Greek mythology, corporate america celebrity culture, astrology and even Thrasher magazine. Her work has been exhibited at Auto Italia, London;1646, The Hague; Galerie Lily Robert, Paris; ltd los angeles, Los Angeles; Carroll Fletcher Gallery, London; ICA London; Western Front Exhibitions Vancouver, CA; and Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.