21° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Europe in Shorts VIII. Experimental Films
Alone. Life wastes Andy Hardy
by Martin Arnold
The family scene, which in the original last only
seconds ans are not particularly notable, are surgically sectioned into single
frames. Using repetition of these single cells and a new rhythm - a kind of
cloning procedure - Arnold creates a monstrous doppelganger of the
original cuts lasting many minutes, in which the hidden message of sex and
violence is turned out to the point where it crackles. In Alone the crossing of
harmless teenager films gives birth to an Oedipal drama in which mother love
mutates to sheer lust.
Biography
film director
Martin Arnold
Martin Arnold (Vienna, 1959) studied psychology and history of art at Vienna University. Free-lance filmmaker since 1988. Since 1995 guest professor at the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee), San Francisco Art Institute.