VANITAS refers to baroque still life paintings where the things around
us are staged to symbolize both impermanence and vanity. The film VANITAS will
take you into a dark and dreamy world of queer bodies and symbols ruled by change.
Here you will meet the precariousness of finding intimacy and meaning in landscapes
dictated by binaries. Flowers wither, fruit rot and glass break. Nothing is forever.
VANITAS is performed by professional dancers, performers and singers to a poetic
sound collage of popmusic. The film is filled with ambivalence
and everything is in a constant state of transformation.
Directors William Andreas Wivel & Jules Fischer Producers Tender Productions & Endurance Production
Cinematographer Loui Ladegaard Editor William Andreas Wivel Sound Jules Fischer Colorist Olesya Kireeva
Based on performance by Jules Fischer
13min / 2022 / Denmark / English / 4K / 16:9 / Stereo / DCP
CPH DOX 2023 / Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
Exhibited SMK / Den Frie Udstillingsbygning / Kunstmuseum Brandts