Amy Alexander Artist in Residence Work (Part 2)

… and here’s the second part of my documentation of my artist-in-residence work at iota. The “proto-show” of “Violent Movies Unraveled.”

One of my interests is the evolution of cinematic form with respect to space. Since the beginning of film history, cinema has compressed physical space onto a single plane: the movie screen. This means we never really see characters face to face no matter what they’re doing to one another. Violent Movies Unraveled re-edits famous movie scenes for two screens so that attackers face their attackees.

The prototype performance happened on a pair of apartment windows in Los Angeles on December 7, 2012. The windows were visible to people walking or driving past the building. The movies used for the proto-show were Psycho and Scarface. Although sound wasn’t used in the proto-show, you can view split-screen composites with sound at: my website.