LOVING BELINDA
Loving Belinda: Single channel video. Color. 9:29 min. 2015
The Loving Belinda video is part of the project Loving Belinda which also includes the videos: Adopting Belinda (2006) and Revisiting the Andersons (2015) as well as the color photograph The Andersons (2015) and the publication Loving Belinda (2015). As a whole, the project is based on the fictive story about Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, a supposedly Asian-American couple in Minnesota who have adopted Belinda, a white girl from Denmark. In the videos the couple is being interviewed about their experience of adopting Belinda. Everything appears ordinary, with the exception that the racial and cultural dynamic is reversed. The project employs the mockumentary genre, appropriating documentary features to destabilize reality with subversive effect. In the Loving Belinda publication, the fictional universe is contextualized by conversations between the individuals involved in the project, whom in reality are all engaged in critical discourse on transnational adoption, anti-racism and whiteness in Scandinavia.
Video excerpt: Loving Belinda
CREDITS: Concept, editing: Jane Jin Kaisen / Cast: Belinda: Elke Olaf Goll, Danish Adoption Researcher: Lene Myong, Mr. Anderson: Tobias Hübinette, Mrs Anderson: Jane Jin Kaisen / Photography & color correction: Guston Sondin-Kung / Supported by: The Danish Arts Foundation