Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy

Martin Arnold

Austria / 1998 / Experimental / 15’0”I9901712

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SYNOPSIS

The overlapping of three harmless teenager films gives birth to an Oedipal drama in which mother-love mutates into sheer lust. The sound track reveals the eerie, rasping "silence" of suppressed tension. The family scenes, which in the original last only seconds and are not particularly notable, are surgically sectioned into single frames. Using repetition of these ›single cells‹ and a new rhythm - a kind of cloning procedure - Arnold then creates an inflated, monstrous doppelgänger of the original cuts lasting many minutes. The hidden message of sex and violence is turned inside out to the point where it simply crackles. In Alone... the crossing of three harmless teenager films gives birth to an Oedipal drama in which not only mother love mutates to sheer lust.

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