Chancre

Chancre

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 2011

Runtime

0h 17m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Chancre

Director

Loo Zihan

Description

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).