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Hell Frozen Over

2000-02-12 en 19m
Documentary
Bernadette Corporation describes this work as "A fashion film about the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and the color white." Produced for the 2000 Walker Art Center exhibition Let's Entertain, this short film employs a range of strategies to approach the idea of nothingness, emptiness, and vacuity, with an eye to how these notions relate to contemporary mass-cultural entertainment. Juxtaposing "documentary" takes on a fashion shoot with footage of semiologist Sylvère Lotringer giving an impromptu lecture on Mallarmé on a frozen lake, Hell Frozen Over maintains an ambiguous stance from which to both critique and celebrate the power of surface.

Director

Bernadette Corporation

Hair Designer

Rick Radone

Makeup Artist

Yuko Mizuno

Costume Design

Andre Walker

Costume Design

Seth Shapiro

Music

Ben Williams

poetry fashion abstract

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • The Bohen Foundation
  • The Bernadette Corporation