Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Martin Arnold

b. 1959 in Vienna
Uses found footage (movie clips) from old black and white films.
In his most recent work, actually creates/selects an environment in which the film is projected, like in the 2003 work, "Jeanne."



La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), Theodor Dryer


Pièce Touché
1989, 16 mm, b/w, sound, 15 min.
Based on a clip of 18 seconds from Joseph Newman's The Human Jungle (1954)


A knock-off/spoof


Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy Part 1...
1998, Austria, 16mm, b/w, sound, 15 min.
Review by Dirk Schaefer for EM Arts
Based on Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland



Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy Part 2...


and Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy Parts 3


Passage à l'acte
1993, Austria, 16mm, b/w, sound, 12 min.


The original scene from Robert Mulligan's To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), 
based on the book by Harper Lee, starring Gregory Peck