Body Double 23

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 Steven Spielberg's E. T. intro for Jean-Luc Verna's Funky Town reprise

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Body Double 32, Dellsperger takes the second scene from Carrie. Played by androgynous model Alex Wetter, a happy gang of girls are whooping it up under the showers in a high school locker room where the rows of lockers seem to double up and form a space-time loop. The loop comes to an end as, one by one, they disappear into the steam and turn into infinite variations on one of their number : Carrie. Still under the shower, Carrie herself seems unaware of what is going on around her. With a touch of sensuality the camera suggests that the child is becoming a woman. Terror-stricken, Carrie sees that her hands are covered with blood.

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

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Dressed To Kill in Disneyland

Brice Dellsperger's reprise of Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill