a Film Installation by Martin Arnold
World Premiere: Kunsthalle Wien 2002
Austria // 2002 // 60 min
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.
Concept & Realisation | Martin Arnold |
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Digital Compositing & Modelling | George Basil, Harald Hund, Ruth Kaaserer, Matthias Meyer, Roland Seidel, Sofie Thorsen, Philipp Zaufel |
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Sound | Johann Neumeister, Peter Seher, Lisa Rozman |
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Supported by | Filmfonds Wien, Innovative Film Austria, Land NÖ Kultur |
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Producers | Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu |
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Production | AMOUR FOU Vienna |
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International Distribution | Gallery Martin Janda |
Kunsthalle Wien A 2002
FACT Fact Center Liverpool GB 2003
Oldenburg D 2003
Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum A 2004
Cinematexas USA 2005