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In February 2004 Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard travelled to Montréal in the midst of an unusually cold winter to make Everybody else is wrong. They filmed thirteen people, each one talking directly to camera about a specific mix tape they'd compiled for a lover. These field recordings were spliced together, jumping backwards and forwards between participants, creating a thirty minute long work. Watch a 2 minute online video excerpt of the work
Some of the participants told stories about their husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, some shared stories of unrequited or lost love. All described similar moments, drawing implied relationships, dropping into abstract declarations, embellished romantic encounters, confessions and half-baked narratives. Often precise moments; concerts, bedrooms, journeys and dance floors are recalled and described. Participants in the film were: Antoine Berthiaume, James Braithwaite, Kevin Finlayson, Molly Kalkstein, Maryse Lariviere, Bronwyn Miller, Mark Andre Pennock, Nick Pye, Sheila Pye, Alana Riley, Eric Shinn, Robin Simpson and Sarah Steeves.
The mix tape acts as a powerful device; Iain & Jane describe this as "an intimate and personally curated mnemonic archive". Each of the cassettes, and their collection of songs, operates as a souvenir of a remembered person and time. "You won't find more penetrative excavations
of music culture than in the films and actions of Iain Forsyth &
Jane Pollard." More...
Images from the editing of Everybody
else is wrong
Everybody else is wrong embodies an acute understanding of music's ability within the context of memory and romance to transcend cliché and begin to act as an extra-linguistic communicative bond. A force that can be taken up by any number of actual, platonic or imaginary relationships and trigger for each one a different meaning. Where the song was once brought into the relationship, now the relationship is lived through the song. Watch a 2 minute online video excerpt of the work
Everybody else is wrong First exhibited in Everybody else is wrong at Pavilion Projects in Montreal, Canada during February 2004.
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