2 SPELLBOUND

2 Spellbound

Estados Unidos. 1999. Blanco/negro. 8 min. Experimental. .
  • Film Director: Les Leveque.
It's a frame by frame re-editing of Alfred Hitchcock's one hundred and eleven-minute psychoanalytic thriller into a seven and a half-minute dance video. Through the conversion of narrative suspense into visual velocity and exploiting the symmetry of Hitchcock's camera by reversing every other frame, the director is attempting to generate a hallucination of transference, an ecstatic dance where bodies and identities intermingle and shift.

Les Leveque
Les received an MFA in Video Research from the Department of Art Media Studies at Syracuse University. He's a Visiting Associate Professor in Film and Electronic Media at Bard College and co-Chair of the Film/Video program in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. His work has been exhibited in internationally including 2000 Whitney Biennial, Georges Pompidou Center, Museum fur Neue Kunst ZKM, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centre Culturel et de Cooperation Linguistique Bilbao, Pacific Film Archive, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Austrian Film Museum, Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia. The Video Data Bank distributes his single channel video work. KS Art in New York City represents him.