By zooming in on the details of both subtitles and images, Jelena Vanoverbeek gives a radical, subjective interpretation of Nicole Kidman’s famous monologue from Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. She examines the scene in an abstract manner that is almost perverse, rooting around for the underlying structures of the audio-visual image.
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The Mirror
A poetic moment from Tarkovsky’s The Mirror is folded back onto itself. The passage of a woman through a corridor becomes a hypnotic moment of… -
To Become, Shift, Transfer, Copy and Erase JANET LEIGH
Camera angles and editing remain loyal to the original shower scene from Psycho, but tiny differences or flagrant changes make its construction transp
Film details
- Country of production
- Belgium
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam SP PAL
