March ENKOR (1982)

March ENKOR (1985 | 21'40") is an experimental video collage by Dutch artist duo Ron Sluik and Reinier Kurpershoek. Bringing together found images of marching soldiers, falling bombs, dancing crowds, television entertainment, and home movies, the work creates an unsettling parallel between the spectacle of warfare and the spectacle of entertainment. Music and rhythmic repetition detach the images from their original contexts, allowing celebration, violence, and mass choreography to bleed into one another.

The title plays on “encore”: the audience’s demand for another performance. Images of soldiers, crowds, and explosions return again and again, suggesting a culture in which war itself becomes endlessly replayable. Viewed safely through the screen, destruction can acquire the rhythms and pleasures of entertainment, raising questions about spectatorship, repetition, and our appetite for images of violence.

Sluik/Kurpershoek was the Dutch artist duo Ron Sluik and Reinier Kurpershoek. Working together from the early 1980s until 2001, they created politically engaged video works that combined poetry, history, travel, and reflections on war and European memory.

FILM BLOCK 2
Continuous screening - see www.gogbot.nl/timetable for the schedule