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Watch a mind-bending video manipulation of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
08.15.2013
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Passage à l'acte
 
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.
 

 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Marvo-lous: British Experimental Filmmaker Jeff Keen
‘The Passengers’ - an experimental film by Fred L’Epee
‘The Private Life of a Cat’ is the ULTIMATE experimental avant-garde cat video, 1944

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