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Chancre
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Chancre

201117mDocumentary

Overview

Chancre – a painless ulceration formed during the primary stage of syphilis. A transmission and transmutation of a memory couched in shame. This essay video is bookend with performance documentation from the re-enactment of Brother Cane in Chicago, 2011. Featuring excerpts from The Writings of a Savage by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Malay Magic (1900) by Walter William Skeat and T.S. Eliot's Fragment of an Agon (Sweeney Agonistes).

Created By

Director
Loo Zihan
Loo Zihan
Status
Released
Original Title
Chancre
Production Countries
Singapore