Passage à l’acte is a short experimental film from Austrian filmmaker Martin Arnold. The piece is a reworking of several seconds of footage from the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. Watching the entire 11+ minute film feels like a feat of endurance. For myself, I find the experience initially intriguing, then moving to irritation, and finally becoming mesmerizing. I challenge you to watch it…all of it.
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Okay, this was weird, but I’m with you. At first it was intriguing, then irritating, then mesmerizing. But what do you make of it?
I’m not sure I make too much of it. Just a sensory experience. I do find it interesting to watch the mother through the whole thing. She kind of seems like the repressed housewife who is just there to look pretty and keep her mouth shut while everyone around her is moving about and expressing themselves.
I took the challenge…and it was over before I suspected it.
It takes a happily distorted brain to come up with this.
Although it was interesting to see the mother, like kind of in the middle of the screen all the time…but with no script.
The main caracter though was …the door! It not only had the leading role, but it also provided the sound track.