All or Nothing at All
Af Margit Lukács og Persijn Broersen
The short film is an adaptation of Frank Sinatra’s hitsong All or Nothing At All (1939). Originally performed from an utterly male perspective, Nina Vadshølt, a young singer from Copenhagen, transformed the song into an angelic chant in which many voices converge and dispute eachother. A group of identical avatars, all fashioned after singer Nina Vadshølt, are rambling the desolate streets in a digital replica of the ancient European town of Viborg (Denmark): This eerily real, unreal everytown of nostalgia becomes a labyrinth of overlapping worlds, in which shopping streets, abandoned malls, garages, old crusader paths and centuries-old alleys converge as game like ruins of the past and ruins to come. All, or Nothing at All takes its cue from the musical film West Side Story (1961), a modern-day Romeo and Juliet narrative set in 1950’s New York. In our version the duality between the real and the virtual reflects the all-or-nothing attitude of our technology-dictated culture, in which everything seems feasible that appears on our screens, a world in which there is no middle ground, it’s Everything or Nothing.
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