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A Boy Needs a Friend
- Runtime:
- 23 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2015
- Country:
- Canada/USA
- Director:
- Production Company:
- Reinke, Steve
- Berlinale Section:
- Forum
In this latest installment of his ongoing video essay, “Final Thoughts”, Steve Reinke ostensibly turns to the subject of friendship. A Boy Needs a Friend delves into its topic head on, in particular investigating the notion of queer Nietzschean friendship. Using his signature dry voice over monologue to tie together an eclectic array of disparate images, ranging from found footage collages to digital animation and cell phone video, Reinke sets forth theories about the identity of Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates, needle point doodles, the upsides of owning both US and Canadian citizenship, and the ability of corpses to have sex. “Final Thoughts” was begun in 2004 as a life project: it will be complete upon Reinke’s death. It is a collection of video essays, a stream of ongoing thoughts and provocative engagements. Forum Expanded screened The Tiny Ventriloquist: Final Thoughts, Series Two in 2012. A Boy Needs a Friend is part of The genital is Superfluous: Final Thoughts, Series Four (2016).
BIOGRAFIE Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke, born in 1963 in Eganville, Canada, lives and works in Chicago, USA. He is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. His work is widely screened and exhibited. Two books of his writing have been published, “Everybody Loves Nothing” and “The Shimmering Beast”.
FILMOGRAFIE Steve Reinke (selection)
2015 A Boy Needs a Friend
2014 The Natural Look
2014 Rib Gets in the Way: Final Thoughts, Series Three
2012 The Tiny Ventriloquist: Final Thoughts, Series Two
2012 A Day for Cake and Accidents
2011 Blood & Cinnamon
2011 The Tiny Ventriloquist
2010 Vomit Star
2010 Disambiguation
2009 Everybody
2008 Boy/Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein's 'Narrative of a Child Analysis'
2007 The Mendi
2007 My Rectum is not a Grave
2007 Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love
2007 Election Defeat
2006 Regarding the Pain of Susan Sontag
2006 Picnic
2005 Ask the Insects
2005 Ghosts of Gay Porn
2004 Anthology of American Folk Song
2004 The Chocolate Factory
2002 Anal Masturbation and Object Loss
2002 J.P
2001 Sad Disco Fantasia
2001 Amsterdam Camera Vacation
1999 Afternoon
1999 Spiritual Animal Kingdom
1999 Fireball
1998 Echo Valley
1998 Incidents of Travel
1998 How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain
1996 Everybody Loves Nothing
1989 The Hundred Videos
Interview with Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke @ IMDb