X LOVE SCENES

X LOVE SCENES is based on an ur-trope of cinema: the love scene, here restaged as an unresolved, traumatic, repetitive cycle.
An actress, a director and a script girl on a film set: the male lead is absent. He is replaced by a mark – a white chalk X on a black flag that becomes the actor’s stand-in. While the script girl reads his lines, the actress plays to an empty space. The character of the actress is based on the template of Giuliana from Michelangelo Antonioni’s (1964). Giuliana, now an actress, has devided herself into a number of sub-characters...

Orig. Title
X LOVE SCENES
Year
2007
Country
Austria
Duration
58 min
Director
Constanze Ruhm
Category
Essay
Orig. Language
German
Subtitles
English
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