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Angst Essen / Eat Fear

Angst Essen / Eat Fear

Ming Wong

  • Year: 2008
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  • Runtime: 27 minutes
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Angst Essen / Eat Fear is a compressed remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's interracial melodrama Ali: Fear Eats The Soul in which Ming Wong himself plays all the roles, including the Moroccan male and German female protagonist.

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official description

Angst Essen / Eat Fear is a compressed remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s interracial melodrama Ali: Fear Eats The Soul. Ming Wong himself plays all the roles, including the Moroccan male and German female protagonist. Amazingly, these remakes successfully convey the precise emotional language of the original films. Too discomfiting to be camp drag, they raise vexing questions about race and gender representation as it relates to narrative expectation. They also display an effusive love for cinema and its heroines that’s hard to resist. – Noah Cowan

Playing with:

In Love for the Mood
2009
3 channel digital video installation
4 minutes, loop



TIFF Bell Lightbox
RBC Learning Studios
From September 12

Image: Ming Wong, Angst Essen / Eat Fear, 2008
Courtesy of the artist.

director bio

Ming Wong explores performance, identity and the moving image by creating his own 'world cinema', often drawing from classic or cult films where he either directs 'mis-cast' actors or plays all the roles himself. He represented Singapore at the Venice Biennale in 2009 with the exhibition "Life of Imitation" that re-visited Singapore's 'golden age' of cinema in the 50s & 60s, for which he received an honourable mention.


     
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