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Item: Life is pain
Sergey Bratkov / Сергій Братков
2002
Video, 00:05:51 min.
Materials: dvd
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK007489).
Like his photos, Bratkov's films are always sharp and almost painfully realistic. In the dramatically titled video Life is Pain, Bratkov filmed a Ukrainian prostitute who occasionally makes some extra cash as a chanteuse in a nightclub; her gut-wrenching repertory, bizarre make-up trompe-l’oeuil skin-colored shirt unite to exclaim the basic truth of her act – that life is pain indeed.
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