Film still from Zabriskie Point (Redacted), 2013, by Stephen Connolly. © bubblefilm 2013
Zabriskie Point (Redacted)
film by Stephen Connolly
27’ HD © 2013
Forthcoming screenings:
London Film Festival 2013
ICA, Screen 1 – Saturday 12 October, 18.50
BFI Southbank, NFT3 – Sunday 20 October, 13.15
Inspired by a visit to Zabriskie Point – a scenic tourist spot in Death Valley, California – this film re-visits and contemporises Antonioni’s 1970 MGM film of the same name. Aligning with Antonioni’s stated intentions – to produce a work as “an idea in landscape” – Zabriskie Point (Redacted) enacts a programme of visual and social research for the earlier film at one remove from the dramatic narrative.
Film still from Zabriskie Point (Redacted), 2013, by Stephen Connolly. © bubblefilm 2013
‘I wanted to ‘play the stranger’ with the original film. I’ve put the story to one side and concentrated on other aspects of the movie – the landscapes, the documentary footage used and the kind of material that was used as research for the work. The result is a peek at the “spectatorial”.’ – Stephen Connolly
Film still from Zabriskie Point (Redacted), 2013, by Stephen Connolly. © bubblefilm 2013
Zabriskie Point (Redacted) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam January 2013 and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA 2013.
Forthcoming screenings:
London Film Festival 2013
ICA, Screen 1 – Saturday 12 October, 18.50
BFI Southbank, NFT3 – Sunday 20 October, 13.15
Film still from Zabriskie Point (Redacted), 2013, by Stephen Connolly. © bubblefilm 2013
Related articles:
– Review on Rotterdam International Film Festival 2013 by William Fowler [BFI blog]
– Documentary Poetry: A Conversation with Stephen Connolly by Richard Birkett, curator at Artists Space, New York [incite]
About the filmmaker:
London based artist filmmaker Stephen Connolly’s work investigates cinema and representation through place, history and politics. His single screen work has been widely shown internationally including Ann Arbor Film Festival; Union Docs, Brooklyn; LA FilmForum; Media City, Windsor, Canada; Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival; BFI Southbank & ICA, London and many more. Connolly received several awards including Ghostly Award for Sound Design for ‘Más Se Perdió’ (2008) at the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA; the Jury Special Mention, Tiger Awards at the Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival 2006 and Girot Award for Editing and Editorial, 45th Ann Arbor Film Festival 2006 for ‘Film for Tom'(2005). Connolly is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Kent.
Filmmakers website: bubblefilm.net
Contact: steve@bubblefilm.net
Connolly’s film is distributed by the Lux, London: lux.org.uk.
Contact: Lux info@lux.org.uk
© bubblefilm 2013