Product Details

• Actors: Marquis de Sade, Monica Lewinsky, Monica Goodling, Gertrude Stein, Holderlin
• Directors: Paul Chan
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: National Philistine
• DVD Release Date: November 27, 2009
• Run Time: 69 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002XJBDVQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,029 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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"[His] video animations and documentaries, drawings, photographs, and other media--has made Chan one of the more closely watched artist of his generation." --The New Yorker

Product Description

(PLEASE NOTE: This disc is a data CD, not a DVD) Sade For Fonts Sake is a must-have special edition disc containing a set of 21 computer fonts and a collection of digital artworks by artist Paul Chan. For nearly ten years, Chan has been exploring the aesthetic, interactive, and philosophical potentials of fonts. As a complement to Sade for Sade s Sake, his monumental digital projection inspired by the work of novelist and philosopher Marquis de Sade (1740--1814), which premiered at the 2009 Venice Biennale, Chan has created a set of 21 truetype fonts that transform the act of typing into a generative Sadean performance. Unlike conventional fonts like Arial or Comic Sans, these Sade fonts are comprised of phrases and sentence fragments rather than letters and other alphanumeric characters, so that what is typed on the keyboard is not what shows up on the screen, or what is printed on paper. Each font holds a unique set of idioms that expresses a different sexual voice when typed. Some like Oh Bishop X and Oh Justine are based on characters in novels by Sade, while others are inspired by characters from news (Monica Lewinsky), pornstars (Michael Lucas), and poets and writers (Gertrude Stein, Holderlin) whose work knot together sex with language, rhythm and form. When you type with one of Chan s fonts, anything you write becomes instantly, inexplicably, dirty, erotic, pornographic, poetic, sometimes all at once. The special edition data CD disc contains all 21 Sade fonts. They work with all three operating systems (Mac, Windows, and Linux). A special font installer is included to take the pain out of installing fonts. The disc also holds a collection of digital PDF works made using the fonts and a special set of drawings created as part of the ensemble of works that together weave the image of sex enmeshed with freedom, violence wrapped up with reason, and art entangled in it all.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate X-Rated Stocking Stuffer!, December 10, 2009

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M. Poras (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sade for Fonts Sake (for Mac, Windows, Linux) (DVD)

Tittilating. Eductional. Dirty. Disturbing. Strangely enlightening. Political. Confusing.
All you could want in a font and more!
I'm shocked to see what's exposed when Chan's fonts turn my own writing into perverse, sexually charged poems.
I was confused by the concept at first, but the fonts explain themselves quickly.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Font Exponents, April 19, 2010

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K. Dunfey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sade for Fonts Sake (for Mac, Windows, Linux) (DVD)

I had a lot of fun playing around with these 'fonts'. Each letter of every font creates a series of words in place of a single letter. The effect, when typing with intention or arbitrarily, is a sort of automatic abstract poetry. The one thing that stuck out to me most is how well thought out each group of words is within each letter. While the product created from typing is certainly gibberish, it doesn't FEEL like gibberish. It reads in a semi-cohesive fashion, pointing towards Paul Chan's deliberate and well thought out selection of each letter's word pairing. Definitely a fun, novel and interesting experience. (Oh yeah, not for children, hee hee.)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars new personalities, April 14, 2010

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yes, yes, more (brooklyn, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sade for Fonts Sake (for Mac, Windows, Linux) (DVD)

This was awesome, it's like having a voice you never knew you had and don't have to take responsibility for. You can just speak as yourself and then you're speaking as someone else who's way naughtier. Good fun, good for the repressed and it's great to try all of them on.