23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Americana

Clean, Shaven

Clean, Shaven

Country: USA
Year: 1993
Duration: 80'


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.

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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).

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