"Forget Him means to give us a different kind of experience, one might say an aesthetic experience, a beauty that, if it fails to achieve transcendence, at the very least produces a palpable longing. The video is constructed around a vintage 8mm amateur film that features a group of gay men at a secluded beach. Ischar supplements the found footage with a text from Walter Benjamin's One Way Street and music from Heinrich Schütz's Symphoniae Sacrae I. The footage begins with two lyrical sequences (a rose bower and a handsome young man), but resolves in a more complex, and complexly affecting, image: a homely middle-aged man, lately gone to flab, struggling to put on shorts that are far too tight for him. He struggles with the zipper; it bulges out, gaping. A cunt, absent or merely displaced - a kind of inverted (anal) castration. It is within (through) this aporia we may find a solace beyond nostalgia." - Steve Reinke
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