Debra Paget is sad, lonely and can’t stop worrying. Will she ultimately have to face her own ghosts?
„The Dark, Debra“ references Michael Robinson’s „The Dark, Krystle“ (2013) and develops a related narrative of a woman in a state of unrest and seclusion. Through digital editing and image modification, Debra Paget – cast in a supporting role in the original sample – is featured as the sole character. Part experimental fiction, part remake, supercut and music video, „The Dark, Debra“ seeks to reveal the fixed concepts applied to Debra Paget’s Hollywood persona and to produce more ambiguous notions of identity, intention and subversion.
Screenings / Awards
AVIFF Cannes Art Film Festival 2020 Cannes France
International Kansk Video Festival 2020 Kansk Russian Federation
Broken Screen/Pantalla Rota 2020 San Juan Spain
AIDFF Athens International Digital Film Festival 2020 Athens Greece
Seattle True Independent Film Festival 2020 Seattle United States
Arizona Underground Film Festival 2020 Arizona United States
Ultracinema 2020 Tepoztlán Mexico
Fisura – International Experimental Film and Video Festival 2020 Mexico City Mexico
12th Bridges International Film Festival 2021 Corinthia Greece
Cine@art Festival 2021 Corinthia Greece
New York Istanbul Short Film Festival 2021 New York City United States
Shockfest Silver Bullet Virtual Screening 2021 Puerto Rico United States
Golden Bridge Istanbul Short Film Festival 2021 Istanbul Turkey
Absurd Art House Film Festival ABSURDAH 2021 Blue Town United Kingdom
Iconic Images Film Festival 2021 Vilnius Lithuania
Art Doc Film Festival 2022 Boulder Creek United States
Le FIFA – Festival International Du Film Sur l’Art 2022
Golden Giraffe International Film Festival 2022
Amsterdam Freedom Indepent Film Festival
Make Art Not Fear Short Film Festival 2022
Tokyo Film Awards 2022
High Tatras Film & Video Festival 2022
Symbiotic Film Festival 2022
Anatolia International Film Festival 2022
Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art 2022
Tokyo International Short Film Festival 2022
Rudis Festival 2022
New York Tri-State International Film Festival 2022
Roma Short Film Festival 2022
Budapest Film Festival 2022
Cinematic European Film Festival 2023
Bizarrya Short Film Festival 2023
Liverpool Indie Awards 2023
Rome Prisma Film Awards 2023
Project Type: Experimental, Short, Other
Genres: Remix, Found Footage, Collage, Détournement, Other
Runtime: 3 minutes 33 seconds
Completion Date: December 1, 2019
Country of Origin: Austria
Shooting Format: digital
Film Color: Black & White
Dina Yanni is a video artist and researcher whose work is heavily influenced by popular culture and its politics, digital image manipulation, and critical theory. Through compilation and analysis of existing footage, experimental editing and/or data corruption, Yanni strives to reveal, reevaluate and reframe power structures discovered in the original materials. She is also a political scientist and publishes theory-based writing around the very same themes that inform her video work: the study of power structures behind visual representations and possibilities for counter-narratives. Dina Yanni holds a PhD in Political Science and an MA in Film Production. Her work has been exhibited at experimental film and video art festivals internationally.
www.difazaya.net
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