To Become, Shift, Transfer, Copy and Erase JANET LEIGH
The famous shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho serves as the starting point for examining whether an actor and the character they play can be separated, by making several variations. And can the bare bones of a scene be revealed by removing the actor entirely? The set was previously exhibited as an autonomous sculpture.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 19'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
