We Never Talked about What Happened
2 video projections, overlaid
Projection: 2.60 x 3.40 m
10:28 min,
soundtrack
»We Never Talked about What Happened«
is a video installation consisting of two overlaid video projections. One
of the projections is based on a dialogue from “Cape Fear” by Martin
Scorcese (USA, 1991), a remake of a 1962 movie of the same title by J. Lee
Thompson.
The scene has former prison inmate Max Cady (Robert de Niro) pose as the instructor
of an acting course which student Danielle Bowden (Juliette Lewis) wants to
attend. They meet on the stage of a school theatre and talk about the “pitfalls
of adulthood”.
We recreated the scene by standing in for the actors without, however, acting
or moving our lips. The original sound track from the scene can be heard.
The action involving the two performers is overlaid by a second projection
which shows a forest scene illuminated by automobile headlights. In the superimposition
of the two projections, people and space, film time and real time come together.
© Wiebke Grösch/Frank Metzger
