This one is a collage of Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s and 1960s, filmed directly from the television set. The constantly recurring motifs of suspense and clichés of plot make it possible to move seamlessly among scenes from different films with different protagonists: uneasy sleep, getting up, listening at the door, turning on the lights, being startled, etc. In the montage, the movements and gestures of the actresses – stars like Lana Turner, Tippi Hedren, and Grace Kelly– seem choreographed and planned for each other. The soundtrack supports this effect with connecting passages of sound that imitate the stereotypes of the genre. The treatment concentrates the dramatic shift from the familiar to the eerie and shows how women become the victims of the voyeuristic glance of film.
Matthias Müller
Director
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Being James Bond77%
Cuadecuc, vampir61%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Aquaman: Heroines of Atlantis61%
Extremis69%
The Class of ‘9271%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey77%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Maria by Callas73%
Cameraperson67%
Directed by John Ford70%
Joker: Put on a Happy Face80%
Elstree 197661%
Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
180° South72%
