Painted by the cough (2024)

Saliva with coughing techniques

4 x (25 x 30) cm 

1 x (55 x 73) cm

*video making process available on request

*This work was shown as a performance in an old swing club ‘Hectolitre’. In this performance I had a first date with a person. As a date we did the performance where we made a cough painting together with saliva and coughing on paint. Then the performance had to be continued by the audience so the shower became more and more full of cough paintings.

Gepubliceerd door Justine Cappelle

Creative non-fiction I am Justine Cappelle. I work with various mediums, but primarily with documentary film. I work ecologically with simple materials or found materials. With them, I construct a world that runs parallel to our everyday reality. I look for situations where life seems almost fictional or science fiction, but is actually pure reality that we cannot see due to our limited senses or our idea of what reality is. I aim to depict those other realities and dimensions, connect us to them, and thereby offer a different perspective on important societal themes. Themes I have worked on include, for example, waste in the sea or the invisibility of technology in the air. My movies screened on festivals as IDFA, Kassel docfest, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, …