#MEAT

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Marc J. M. van den Broek | Germany | 2016 | 7:10

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#MEAT distills a hundred years of human inventiveness and arrives at a wordless digital dystopia that’s as inescapable as man’s thirst for knowledge and power. Shot as a series of fragments by Belgian-born artist and sculptor Marc van den Broek, this six-minute art film resembles a retrofitted tale of Faust. Essential elements of humanity – the written word, the human body, music – are clasped and reduced to mechanical function by van den Broek’s eerily beautiful sculptural restraints, strapped first onto a hand, a leg, head, finally an entire body.

Hooks and eyes in the bowels of a warehouse reflect a fragment of binary script and double up as industrialization’s invitation to mass consumption. Ancient songlines metamorphose into the hum of drones.

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Marc J. M. van den Broek

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Marc J. M. van den Broek

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Marc J. M. van den Broek