HOUR OF THE WOLF

− Abstract

Hour of the Wolf is a film documenting the backstage of The Collectors, a project curated by artists Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset for the Danish and Nordic Pavilions at the 53rd International Venice Biennale of Art. The video captures the dismantling and demolition of the exhibition, showing the fictional dimension of the set design and the collapse of the illusion created by the stage objects, which appear here in a new light.

Filmed after the Biennale show, the work transitions the scene in which the audience was immersed during the exhibition into a stage of destruction.  

The film’s title references Vargtimmen (1968), also known as Hour of the Wolf, a work by Swedish director Ingmar Bergmann, whose vision served as an inspiration for Elmgreen & Dragset’s project.