Plagued by hallucinations, Peter Winter flees an obscured, violent past and returns to his hometown only to discover that his daughter, Nicole, is deliberately being hidden from him. As he begins his search for her, his world becomes increasingly chaotic and he starts to self destruct.
"Clean, Shaven is first and foremost a character study of a schizophrenic who undergoes an emotional crisis in his life […]. I then deconstructed the narrative so that the structure would mirror the destructive, fractured, experiential nature of schizophrenia. As auditory hallucinations are primar symptom of schizophrenia, I knew during the writing process that sound would be as important as imagery in conveying Winter's state of anxiety
and, as such, I wrote a significant portion of the sound design into the script." (L. Kerrigan)
Biography
film director
Lodge Kerrigan
Lodge Kerrigan
(New York,
1964), one of the leaders
in American independent cinema, studied Philosophy at Columbia
University and
Cinema at New York University. He got his start in cinema first as a
cameraman
and later directing videoclips and commercials. He debuted in
feature-length
films in 1994 with the independent film Clean, Shaven,
the story of a man suffering from
schizophrenia who tries to get back his daughter, who has been given in
custody
to another family. The film, which was presented at Cannes in the
section Un
Certain Regard, won both critical and box office success. His
next films
were Claire Dolan (1998) with Vincent
D'Onofrio and Katrin Cartlidge in
the role of a prostitute, and In God's Hands (2002).
This film, starring
Peter Sarsgaard and produced by Steven Soderbergh, was never released
due to a
laboratory accident that occurred during processing of the negative.
Soderbergh
also produced Kerrigan's most recent film, Keane (2004),
which was shown
at Cannes in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, in which the
director once more
studies the universe of a man with mental problems, who this time is
tormented
by the kidnapping of his young daughter.
FILMOGRAFIA
Clean, Shaven (1993), Claire
Dolan (1998), Keane
(2004).