A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I--XVIII was produced between 2008 and 2011, during which the artist, Taryn Simon, traveled around the world researching and recording bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the eighteen "chapters" that make up the work, external forces such as territory, power, circumstance, and religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the "living dead" in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate.

 

Produced by Art.sy Films http://art.sy

 

Edited by Antonio Sanchez

Produced by Marina Cashdan

Music by Shervin Shaeri

Cinematography of the Exhibition at MoMA by Theo and Frank Stanley

Additional Cinematography at Neue Nationalgalerie courtesy of Felix von Boehm

Post Production at Consulate 

Producer: Alan Lopez 

Asst Editor: Christina Mansi 

 

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