Specially commissioned for EMAF’s Artist in Focus, Mixtape #1 brings together for the first time a heady blend of episodes, excerpts, off-cuts, and ‘wild’ footage from over twenty years of Phil Collins’ filmography.

This genre-hopping compendium draws its title and concept from the ‘mixtape’ – a devotional form of compilation, which is notorious for its tendency (and tenderness) towards poetic overture, insinuation and desire. It is a mode constantly alive to correspondence and rhythm. The mixtape foregrounds interactions between form and feeling, and underlines proximities between giver and receiver. Such connections have long characterised Collins’ extensive practice and are revealed here as sustained techniques of production.

Mixtape #1 includes moments from they shoot horses (2004), an endurance dance marathon in Ramallah, Palestine, filmed during the Second Intifada; it channel-surfs across two nights of teleshopping in This Unfortunate Thing Between Us (2011), first performed in Berlin and broadcast live on German public television; and it eavesdrops on karaoke enthusiasts in Bogotá, Istanbul, Jakarta and Bandung, singing The Smiths in the world won’t listen (2004-2007).

Elsewhere, excerpts of the melodrama soy mi madre (2008) show Collins’ lush cinematic take on the popular form of the telenovela, shot in Mexico City, and the first of the artist’s films to employ professional actors; while scenes from the long-term collaborative project Desire Lines (2022-ongoing) gesture towards decolonial, queer collectivity expressed through dance, dialogue and performance.

Braided together alongside music videos, animations and ephemeral scenes, Mixtape #1 operates in a heterogenous mode of abundance.

Mixtape #1 includes excerpts from the following works by Phil Collins:

they shoot horses
PS 2004, 420’
Featuring: Amal, Hussein, Maher, Mohammad, Noora, Sarah, Tamer, Ziad
Camera: Phil Collins

the world won’t listen
CO / TR / ID 2004-2007, 56’
Camera: Phil Collins, Metin Çavus, Anggun Priambodo
Karaoke adaptation: Alejandro Gómez Cáceres
Producers: Phil Collins, Michele Faguèt, Derya Demir, Clarissa Adinegoro
Produced by Shady Lane Productions

soy mi madre
MX / US 2008, 28’
Featuring: Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Veronica Langer, Gina Morett, Zaide Sylvia Guitérrez, Miriam Calderon, Dobrina Cristeva, Eileen Yáñez, Sonia Couoh, Almadella, Montse, Luis Cárdenas, Tenoch Huerta
Screenplay: Phil Collins, P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes
Cinematography: Damian García
Production design: Salvador Parra
Costumes: Malena Riva
Music: Nick Powell
Editors: Cristóvão A dos Reis, Miguel Galarza
Producer: Siniša Mitrović
Produced by Shady Lane Productions

use! value! exchange!
DE 2010, 21’
Featuring: Andrea Ferber and students of the University of Applied Sciences Berlin-Karlshorst
Music: Lætitia Sadier
Camera: Matthias Schellenberg
Editor: Cristóvão A. dos Reis
Sound mix: Jochen Jezussek
Producers: Phil Collins, Siniša Mitrović
Produced by Shady Lane Productions

This Unfortunate Thing Between Us
DE 2011, 60’
Featuring: Matthias Matschke, Julia Hummer, Trystan Pütter, Susanne Sachsse, Sharon Smith, Niels Bormann, Judy Minx, Pau Pappel, Christian Kärgel, Marcel Schlutt, Pegah Ferydoni, and members of the public
Music: Gruff Rhys and Y Niwl
Commissioned by HAU Hebbel am Ufer in cooperation with ZDFkultur, Shady Lane Productions and Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD

Delete Beach
JP / DE / NO 2016, 7’
Screenplay: Phil Collins
Character design and animation: Marisuke Eguchi
Music: Mica Levi
Voice actors: Asami Yano, Kohei Aoyama
Producers: Siniša Mitrović, Tanaka Eiko, Trond Gullaksen, Kaspar Synnevåg
Produced by Shady Lane Productions, Studio 4°C, North Sea Productions
Co-produced by HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Commissioned by Bergen Assembly

Crab Day
DE 2016, 11’
Music: Cate Le Bon
Featuring: Cate Le Bon, Felicity Croydon, Sharon Smith, Miki Shoji, Luc Guiol, Tina Pfurr, Yuebing Luo, Valentin Tszin, Simon Will, Roni Maciel, Johanna Lemke, Felix Saalmaann
Cinematography and editing: Casey Raymond
Producer: Siniša Mitrović
Produced by Shady Lane Productions

Human Performance
DE 2016, 5’
Music, lyrics: Parquet Courts
Puppeteers: Das Helmi (Florian Loycke, Felix Loycke, Emir Tebatebai, Brian Morrow), Suse Wächter with Veronika Thieme and Silvia Petrova
Cinematography: Imogen Heath
Editor: Andreas Dalström
Producer: Siniša Mitrović
Produced by Shady Lane Productions

Desire Lines
JM / DE 2022
Kingston and Berlin, June / August 2022
With and by: Beyond Homophobia (Moji Anderson and Erin MacLeod), DJ Biggy C, Black and Gay, Back in the Day (Marc Thompson), Black Obsidian Sound System (Keira Coward Deyell and Gin Wilson), Faggamuffin Block Party (Gin Wilson and Lyall Hakaraia), Va-Bene Fiatsi, Andil Gosine, Simone Harris, İpek İpekçioğlu, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Jao Moon, La Byle, LaLoVe Kitchen (Lalo Gomes, Aérea Negrot, et al.), Jaevion Nelson, Angelique V. Nixon, Refuge Worldwide, Sippin’ T
Camera: Jada Biggs, Joanna Piechotta, Jide Tom Akinleminu, Alice Z. Jones
Organising team: Lynhan Balatbat-Henbok, Siniša Mitrović, Jessica Páez (HKW)
Produced by HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Tira Los Muros
MX 2022
Oaxaca de Juárez, December 2022
With and by: Kenya Cytlaly Cuevas Fuentes, Erika Sebastián Luis, Amaranta Viridiana Valgañón, Bruno Renero-Hannan, and others
Sonideros: Sonido Confirmacion, Esami Pau, Sonido Apokalipzin
Produced by Hacer Noche and Shady Lane Productions

Typical Love (co-directed with Stefan Ramírez Pérez)
DE 2022, 4’
Music and lyrics: Cate Le Bon
Cinematography: Paul Falz
Editor: Stefan Ramírez Pérez
Producer: Siniša Mitrović
Produced by Shady Lane Productions

Desire Lines (Queer Jam)
JM, 2023
Featuring: Marcilli, Kwela Cole, April Anderson, Jody-Ann Brown, Davyd-Paul Alberts
Camera: Jada Biggs

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