Watch a mind-bending video manipulation of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
This video dates back to 1993. Martin Arnold, born in 1959, is from Vienna, Austria, and has spent a good deal of time teaching film at American universities, including SUNY Binghamton, Bard College, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The YouTube title indicates that this is merely an “extract” — this clip is a little less than 6 minutes long, but the whole thing is only 12 minutes long, and it continues roughly in the same manner as the part that is extant. The first 6 minutes are all you need to explore its choppy, frenetic brilliance.
As Wikipedia says, “Passage à l’acte (1993) uses several seconds of the film To Kill a Mockingbird to create a bizarre story of aggression and tension within a traditional American family.”
My favorite bit is the “duet” between Scout and her brother Jem around 4:10.