'The Love of Statues'

Synopsis

The film uses puppets and automata as human surrogates, and combines original material with found-footage and archive photographs. The idea of hypnosis occurs throughout, notably in the records of its use in the treatment of hysteria at the Salpetriere Asylum in 19th century Paris.

Details

Year

2019

Type of film

Shorts

Running Time

20 min

Format

super 16mm

Director

Peter Samson (artist-film-maker)

Genre

• Experimental

Production status

Complete

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Last updated 3rd December 2019