Romantic love is saturated with commoditization. The socialistic premise behind “free love” crumbles when desiring competition gets in the way, and in the age of hook-up apps, the possibility of free sex represents the liberalization, not the liberation, of love. 'Army of Love' (2016) introduces a propositional regiment of soldiers diverse in age and appearance and tasked with solving the persistent social malaise of dire loneliness.
Detailed credits:
Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann, Army of Love
HD film, 40 min., 2016
Cinematography Gernot Bayer
Music Alvin Aronson
Sound mix Jon Eckhaus
Styling Viviane Hausstein
Costumes Hood by Air
Cast: Anna Barbara, Ashiq Khondker, Cynthia Scholten, Hans Rosenfeldt, Ingo Niermann, Johanna Eck, Julieta Aranda, Leon Aranda, Marc Elsner, Marie Golüke, Matthias Vernaldi, Moritz Wulf, Stefan Weise, Stephanie Klee, Tarren Johnson, ZomaCrum-Tesfa
Commissioned and co-produced by the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
With additional support by Wiesbaden Biennale and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona