HEAD TO HEAD is a video installation in which Belgian actor and artist Herwig Ilegems tries to make close contact with animals: a rooster, a peacock, a goat, an ox, a donkey, an alpaca, an owl and a water buffalo. In the end they come head to head. The actor looks the animal in the eye, not from a sense of superiority, but from a perspective of equality.
Herwig Ilegems:‘As humans, we are getting further and further removed from nature. I noticed that while making Head to Head. With the animals, it felt like I landed in another reality.’
Credit
Director of photography: Danny Elsen, Arne Focketyn, Maurice Luyten, Gerd Schelfhout Cast and Art director: Herwig Ilegems Color Grading: Frank Temmerman Editor: Arne Focketyn, Herwig Ilegems Sound design: Senjan Jansen Produced by: Herwig Ilegems Written & Directed: Herwig Ilegems
Based on sculptures of Dirk Hendrikx.Special thanks to De Studio and Annemie Van Hove (Panenka)
CASTin order of appearanceas themselvesROOSTERHERWIG ILEGEMSPEACOCKMALE GOATOXDONKEYALPACAOWLWATER BUFFALOOSTRICH
Special thanks to Herwig Ilegems, who contributed his extraordinary work for Jitti Chompee at the Unfolding Kafka Festival 2024.
Date and Time: 01-14 Nov from 10:00-18:00
Venue: Jim Thompson Art Center
