Performed screening of Hidden In Plain Sight
HD Video
14 minutes 41 seconds
Hidden in Plain Sight was commissioned by the Centre d’art et photographie de Lectoure for the exhibition Le Pont de Fuite de L’Histoire as part of the L’ete Photographique. The film is based on fragments of Robert Bresson’s acclaimed film Pickpocket (1959). The work re-enacts short scenes from Bresson’s film in which the protagonists rehearse and perform the techniques that pickpockets use to avoid being caught. Made in the studio with a small group of non-professional actors the film reflects on the position of the actor and the thief each reliant on the arts of mimicry and deception.
Hidden in Plain Sight was conceived to be screened alongside a voiceover performed live by another actor standing by the screen projected image in front of the audience. For the purposes of putting the image on line the voice of the actor who performed in Lectoure has been made integral to the film (with English subtitles added for an English audience).
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Shot of performed screening for Deptford X Visual Arts Festival, , September 2015