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ANEMIC CINEMA

An animated short film by Pablo Sigg
 
2008 / 9 m. 31 s. / Colour / Silent / Mexico - Switzerland

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From a 10-minute scene of William Friedkin's film The Exorcist (1973) I extracted 13,704 frames that I digitally redrew one by one and printed out individually on paper. I then scanned each printed page and reconstructed again the sequence. It was more than a year of extraordinarily tedious and slow work, a kind of self-inflicted torture, a long cinematographic exorcism, which, contrary to liturgical exorcism, instead of expelling the enemy spirit, apprehended it in a series of images and words «possessed» in themselves, but dispossessed of the film; an anemic ghost without a shell.

Selection of presentations:
Petra, Mexico City, 2008
LTD Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, 2011
International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2014