Soliloquy Trilogy,
2001
Yes/No (Babel Series, Diptych), 1999
Yes/No (Babel Series, Diptych), 1999
Soliloquy Trilogy,
2001
Yes/No (Babel Series, Diptych), 1999
Yes/No (Babel Series, Diptych), 1999
Soliloquy Trilogy, 2000, by Candice Breitz (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1972), is a sequence of three short films, appropriated respectively from the Hollywood films Basic Instinct, Dirty Harry and The Witches of Eastwick. From each of the chosen films, Breitz has isolated all of the moments during which the leading figure emits words or sounds, transforming the original plot into a soliloquy that is apparently devoid of narrative developments.
According to Breitz, Soliloquy Trilogy "expresses the strong spatio-temporal compression that occurs in the presence of a celebrity." The work exposes the logic of obsessive repetition that, in contemporary film language, defines the phenomenon of the star system.
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