Tsumi (The Mis-step)

Tsumi (The Mis-step)

1993-98, Belgium, 16mm, colour, sound, 10 min. 50 sec.

Experimenting with the use of a stop motion technique that freezes movement through the use of long exposures and slow shutter speed, Baes filmed during three months his intimate family live. A soft-porn autobiographical documentary: the axing of wood, a performance by Baes’ life companion Aï Suzuki, love-making and birth-giving and the philosophy that no pleasure can be without crime.