In five parts, Greystone shows what may have happened the night Ned Doheny Jr. and his assistant Hugh Plunket were murdered. Perfectly shot in 1920s style in the same rooms the 1929 tragedy took place in. The scene is constantly re-played. Since 1950, Greystone Mansion has often been used as a film set. Artificial language and distanced acting aid the critical interrogation of the Hollywood film myth. Using only dialog appropriated from Hollywood films also shot in the storied estate.
Also in this combined programme
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Insight
We look at a film crew; the film crew is watching us. Cinema as a mirror of reality that becomes fiction. Or is it vice… -
Immortelle
Experimental dance film in which two ex-lovers deal with their relationship’s collapse. While the body dances, the heavy heart follows. -
Secretion
A dank post-apocalyptic landscape reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s ‘Zone’. Amnesia’s impossible, the past inescapable and attempts at decontamination futile
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 29'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
