"Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic"

From the Alida Ivanov Gallery:


Virlani Hallberg & Jennifer Rainsford
"Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic," April 1-4 2010


Alida Ivanov Gallery welcomes you to the screening of "Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic," a film by Virlani Hallberg and Jennifer Rainsford.

The film that will be shown at the gallery examines personal processes like self-annihilation and compares these to how programmes, on a macro level, and ideologies are used between nations. This is shown through three characters, who according to given manuals, provided by a fourth character, execute different tasks and repeat expressions without actually knowing the meaning behind them.

The plot is played out on a sailing boat during one day, a journey that seems to pursue an utopian vision, but without an apparent reason. The characters are called Programme A, B , C, and DÄ. The first three execute different exercises and tests to evaluate who is worthy of the utopian goal, and who should be obliterated. Programme A and B act indifferent and cold. To begin with, they are meticulous and almost compulsive in their looks and action. Programme C tries to please them and wants to live up to their expectations, but fails to win their confidence, and therefore becomes annihilated.

All three allow themselves to be exhorted by the fourth invisible character, Programme DÄ, the angel of death. There is no clear line between the characters as they switch their persona and role for another, which is initiated by the next person, all according to a predestined programme.

Virlani Hallberg (b. 1981) and Jennifer Rainsford (b. 1982) have written, directed and edited "Our Global Behaviour is Psychopathic." They also play the parts of Programme A and B. Both of them currently study at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm.

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