BETWEEN TWO DEATHS

Between Two Deaths

Estados Unidos. 2006. Color. 7 min. Experimental. Vídeo.

Film Director: Wago Kreider.

A ghost of cinema past living in the present, the short film was shot at San Francisco's Mission Dolores, site of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'. The famous graveyard scene from 'Vertigo' was meticulously reconstructed, shot-by-shot. The new imagery was then superimposed with the original scene to create a poetic and haunting work, a meditation on the history of cinema.

Wago Kreider

Wago is a media artist whose work investigates the legacy of classical Hollywood film history, and its relation to issues of place, landscape, and authorship. Through films, videos, installations, and live media performance, he engages with contemporary strategies of re-enactment, the reconstruction of cinematic history, and the intersections of personal autobiography with film. His work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the London Film Festival, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Views From the Avant-Garde at the New York Film Festival, and at the Viennale, the International Film Festival of Vienna. He teaches Media Arts Practice at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

"Capturing Rose" (2007) / "Between 2 Deaths" (2006) / "Vienna in the Desert" (2005) / "Metropolitan Montage" (2004) / "Marvelous Creatures" (2003) / "Gaza Book of Longing" (2003) / "To Hug You and Squeeze You" (2001) / "House" (2001)