USA
2010 / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
20’ / No dialogue
Synopsis
A conceptual “remake” of Louis Malle’s 1975 film, American artist Amie Siegel’s Black Moon is set in the post-apocalyptic landscape of foreclosed housing developments. Female revolutionaries traverse the bloody aftermath of war—the uncannily recent ruins of a future that never was.
director: Amie Siegel
screenplay: Amie Siegel
cinematography: Christine A. Maier
editing: Amie Siegel
sound: Gisburg
costume: Allison Leach
music: EKG
cast:
Jess Atwood Gibson
Mem Kennedy
Tammy Klein
Anna Rosa Parker
Daniela Sea
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Biography
Amie Siegel
American nationality. Born in 1974 in Chicago (USA)
Filmography
2011 BLACK MOON
2009 MY WAY 1 - MY WAY 2
2008 DDR/DDR
2005 BERLIN REMAKE
2003 EMPATHY
1999 THE SLEEPERS |
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contact Cannes
Amie Siegel Studio
Mob. +1 917 340 2951
studio@amiesiegel.net
co-production
Candi Guteres
Molly Sturdevant
In 1975, when Black Moon is released, Louis Malle mentions his desire of a cinematic equivalent to the automatic writing of the Surrealists; in 2010, Amie Siegel’s remake is an unwaivering conceptual counterpoint.
A three-fold work (in addition to the short film, a series of pictures all showing a black whole and a video set-up bringing Malle face to face with Siegel), Black Moon clearly replaces the libertarian utopia of the final war by the liberal reality of a never ending one. Last December, she was granted the James and Audrey Foster Prize for this creation, thus confirming her startling talent as a cross-media artist.
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Francis Gavelle |
