Dancing Chesthair

The title alone moves a person to smile, and it lives up to its promise. Fiona Rukschcio utilizes the music video genre as a form of advertising much like the music industry itself. Wanja Hof´s throbbing Techno-disco persiflage is accompanied by an ambivalent promotion for men´s hairy upper bodies. The ambivalence results from Rukschcio´s cunning application of a variety of methods. Cut-out torsos of the lords of creation minus limbs and heads parachute down from the sky to land on earth. The use of traditional animation techniques recalls historical, handmade animated films that in no way resemble smooth contemporary...