Project Detail

'The Love of Statues'

Synopsis

The film uses puppets and automata as human surrogates, and combines original material with found-footage and archive photographs. The idea of hypnosis occurs throughout, notably in the records of its use in the treatment of hysteria at the Salpetriere Asylum in 19th century Paris.

Details

Year: 2019
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: 20 min
Format: super 16mm
Director: Peter Samson (artist-film-maker)

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Parachute Films

26 Lawn Avenue
Doncaster
DN1 2JE

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