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Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blood Sisters

With his Pinocchio Pipenose Household Dilemma, Paul McCarthy shows that interfaces don't always have to be a complicated business. Contact with the world of this American artist is established by dressing in red & yellow coveralls, enormous red plastic shoes and a mask with a long tube for a nose. Dressed in this low tech interface the audience can see on video how another Pinocchio - Paul McCarthy himself - covers himself in ketchup and chocolate paste.

A woman visits a psychiatrist, but she has a hidden agenda. Likewise, the therapist is not all that he appears to be; he listens to the analysand with concern but also with an underlying, almost sinister, sense of lust. The scene is from Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill, in which nothing is as it appears, and in which its protagonists role-play, play-act and dress-up. A perfect text, then, to serve as the template for Brice Dellsperger’s Body Double 37.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blow Out

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and Ken Russell's Women In Love

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Baillie Walsh's Massive Attack Be Thankful For What You've Got

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Obsession

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Obsession

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct

For Body Double 35, Dellsperger takes the second scene from Xanadu. Played by choreographer/dancer François Chaignaud, a sprightly group of Muses emerges dancing from a painting on the wall. At an exhibition at the Swiss Institute in 2016 Dellsperger reproduced the wall painting and in a strange switch the creation of the set precedes the idea of the film, even becoming its trigger. The entire equilibrium of things seems to be affected : the shots are reversed and Kira dances backwards until she becomes one with the wall. The loop is closed.

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Body Double

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Blow Out

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Sidney J. Furie's The Entity

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me