A Messenger From The Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

A one-person piece for the “man with a thousand faces.” Silent horror film icon Lon Chaney was the son of deaf-mute parents, and thus, already as a child, perfected pantomime. He rose to fame as a master of disguise with a penchant for grotesque appearances and torturous contortions. Norbert Pfaffenbichler has remounted the forty-six preserved films of the two hundred that Chaney made into a tribute in A Messenger From The Shadows. A tribute to Chaney’s art, to the uncanny power of the horror film, and to the paradoxical enchantment of cinema: Notes on Film 06.
Atmospheric nightmare piece about...

Orig. Title
A Messenger From The Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)
Year
2013
Country
Austria
Duration
60 min
Category
Experimental
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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