33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
WAVES/ARTRUM

CUTAWAYS

CUTAWAYS
by Agnieszka Kurant
Country: USA
Year: 2014
Duration: 24'


What happens to the characters whose scenes are cut by the director during editing? Are they ghosts whose existence is linked simply to the memory of die-hard cinephiles or a movie’s production notes? A few examples: Charlotte Rampling as the hitchhiker in Vanishing Point by Richard C. Sarafian; Abe Vigoda as the lawyer in The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola; and Dick Miller as the owner of a wrecking yard in Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino. And yet these lost characters seem to have a true possibility for life, a limbo between the film and the collective memory. But where?

Biography

film director

Agnieszka Kurant

Agnieszka Kurant (Łodz, Poland, 1978) lives and works in Warsaw. A visual and multimedia artist, she deals with the relationship between the contemporary world – also from a political and economic point of view – and everything that is considered fake, unreal, immaterial or unreliable (gossip, fantasy stories, paranormal phenomena). Her works have been exhibited and projected at important cultural institutions, including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in 2004, the Tate Modern in London in 2006, the Witte de With in Rotterdam in 2011 and MoMA PS1 in New York in 2013. In 2010, she represented Poland at the Polish pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

FILMOGRAFIA

Cutaways (cm, 2014).

Declaration

film director

“Like many of my works Cutaways relates to what I call “phantom capital” – the phantoms haunting contemporary capitalist economy which is based to a high degree on immaterial products and phenomena from the virtualization of money and immaterial and invisible labor to the speculative market of patents, copyrights, credits, debts etc. I am trying to draw attention to the fact that the speculations and exploits of contemporary capitalism often happen around fictions, immaterial entities and phantoms influencing the narratives of economy and politics.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Agnieszka Kurant, con la collaborazione di/with the collaboration of Walter Murch
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Agnieszka Kurant, Manuel Cirauqui, John Menick
fotografia/cinematography
Michael Simmonds
montaggio/film editing
Timothy Sternberg
musica/music
Stefan Weglowski
interpreti/cast
Charlotte Rampling, Abe Vigoda, Dick Miller
produttori/producers
Anna Lena Vaney, Victorien Vaney
produzione/production
Anna Lena Films
coproduzione/coproduction
Sculpture Center, New York and Stroom den Haag, The Hague


contatti/contacts
Anna Lena Vaney Films
annalenavaney@mac.com
www.annalenafilms.com
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