Miss Candace Hilligloss' Flickering Halo
2011 · 13m · Italy
Directed by Fabio Scacchioli, Vincenzo Core
Genres: essay film, experimental
An experimental video work that takes footage of actress Candace Hilligoss from the 1962 horror film Carnival of Souls and subjects it to obsessive editing, frame manipulation, repetition, and electronic scoring.
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The scouts
Sixty-year-old horror footage run through an obsessive Italian experimental filter until the actress becomes pure flicker — this is cinema eating itself, and I'm here for it.
Scacchioli and Core perform a formal autopsy on Carnival of Souls, in the lineage of Bill Morrison and Martin Arnold — image as fossil, repetition as exorcism. Festival-circuit experimental at its most rigorous; not for casual viewing, but exceptional within the form.
Conducting a formal autopsy on Candace Hilligoss's Carnival of Souls performance via glitch and repetition — Venice 68, multiple experimental prizes. Thirteen minutes that loves cinema by dissecting it.
Festivals
- Venice Film Festival 2011