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Live, Laugh, Limerence

ARCADE Stand: 207

Edition 3/3 + 1 AP


What of the adult experience of emotion and intimacy though? 

Marijke De Roover takes on the vices of 'heteronormative' culture, in a queered, comedic take on love, relationships and intimacy that nevertheless manages to take a hard look at the insecurities of millennial culture.  

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In her video 'Live, Laugh, Limerence' (2020) De Roover hacks together campy cabaret and self-obsessed monologue-cum-queer theorising on love and relationships, to send up the failures of rom-coms, Disney and golden-age Hollywood's stereotyping of male and female desire. Critically sharp but never boorish or hectoring, De Roover's film manages also to touch on the fragilities and frustrations of Generation Y, for which the risk of intimate relationships - of losing oneself to someone else - becomes another point of conflict in the commodified 'swipe right' world of no-commitment culture, regardless of its queer or hetero veneer.

 

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Marijke De Roover
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