Bewitchment, 2022, b&w film, 15 min in an endless loop
Bewitchment consists of 30 overlapping films. The individual videos are presented in such a way that they can be seen all at once. Each of the films is a documentary of a speech given by a prominent totalitarian leader. The time span is limited to the 20th century. The resulting impression is deliberately more abstract. It is essentially like a psychedelic essence of concentrated evil, with horrific phantoms of the past looming up and attempting to bewitch us with their suggestion and charisma. Out of such a terrifying visual, but also noise phantasmagoria sometimes emerge specific voices of such totalitarian leaders as V. I. Lenin, Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Adolf Hitler, J. V. Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Klement Gottwald, Mao Zedong, Hideki Tojo, Pol Pot, François Duvalier, Idi Amin, Mobutu Sese Seko, Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan Milosevic, Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Kim Jong Il, Enver Hoxha, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Fidel Castro, Robert Mugabe, Vladimir Putin and others.