Deanimated

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Synopsis

The avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold subjects a legendary American horror movie of 1941 to radical cinematographic surgery. Actors disappear thanks to digital technology, leaving the cinematic space to become the actual leading actor in a precise and absurdly comical new interpretation. Arnold transforms the original movie "The Invisible Ghost", in which a wife hypnotises her husband into a murder plot, into "Deanimated" - a study in the increasing disintegration of actor movies; at its close the camera's eye wanders through sets devoid of human life where the lights literally seem to have gone out.

Digital Compositing & Modelling: George Basil, Manuel Böck, Harald Hund, Ruth Kaaserer, Matthias Meyer, Roland Seidel, Christoph Kempter, Fritz Mayer, Regine Müller, Almut Rink, Christian Stoppacher, Sofie Thorsen, Philipp Zaufel
Sound: Johann Neumeister, Peter Seher, Lisa Rozman, Thomas Woschitz

World premiere: Kunsthalle Wien 2002

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