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Nelson Henricks Compilation II

Conspiracy of Lies 12 min. 1992
Conspiracy of Lies speaks of the alienation of minorities, of consumer culture, urban isolation and the fine balance between mental order and chaos. The tape begins with a voice (my own) recounting the story of the discovery of a series of assumed the author to be a white, gay man like myself. Through the use of twelve narrators of different race, gender, religion and sexual orientation, I attempted to destabilize my own subjectivity and challenge my pre-existing assumptions regarding difference.

Emission 12 min. 1994
The videotape Emission found its origin in three performance I wrote between 1988 and 1991. In their original form, the performances dealt with sex, romance and communication technologies. The videotape elaborates on these themes to speak of how human beings exist in a margin between nature and technology, and works towards confounding any simplified analysis of this worn-out duality.

Shimmer (English Version) 7 min. 1995 Look at the landscape and imagine a different one there. Touch the body and let it slip the memory. Imagine a desert, when what you see is winter. The filmmaker evokes a territory where fragile shifts - the links between things, emotions and places - materialize and dematerialize. - Nicole Gingras.
Shimmer(French Version) 7 min. 1995 ÒCom edie 7 min. 1994
This video in two parts is a newcomer s portrait of Montreal and focuses on two of my architectural obsessions: the Hydro Quebec building and the Metro. I spent my first winter in Montreal in a cold, dark, first-floor apartment. I sat in the kitchen beside the electric heater, drinking coffee and watching the disc on the electric meter spin faster and faster, all the while wondering how I would manage to pay the bills. At night, I laid in bed and looked at the enormous illuminated Q on the Hydro Quebec building and wondered how much it cost to keep it lit every night. A quote from a physics text brought this first section into focus.