Hell Frozen Over
2000•19m•Released
Documentary
Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness, emptiness, and vacuity, with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary mass-cultural entertainment. Juxtaposing "documentary" takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake, Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface.
Director
Bernadette Corporation
Studio
The Bohen Foundation
Cast
Bianca
Model
Arielle
Model
Lizzi Bougatsos
Voice
Colin DeLand
Voice
Sylvère Lotringer
Model
Production
Company
The Bohen Foundation
Company
The Bernadette Corporation
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