Wendy Williams' Wondrous Wax Whopper (2021)
Combining poor image/found footage of the reveal of Wendy Williams’ Madame Tussauds wax figure with algorithmic frame interpolation to enhance an obsessive gaze (superstimulus) towards the uncanny nature of wax reproduction and talk-show spectacle. Inspired by a meme combining the same YouTube footage with the soundtrack of Annihilation (2018), a movie in which the main character in the climax of the movie faces a silver humanoid entity that transforms in an identical copy of her. In the choreography of Bobbi June Smith, is a brutal confrontation between the two carbon copies, in which the main character is quickly overwhelmed by the weight of her own self.
Video part of official selection of Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators online film program with screening at RENEENEE Amsterdam and part of Telemagic 1 Euro Cinema, screened at KO(o)RTS short film festival in Enschede.
(video—4:57)
Wendy Williams' Wondrous Wax Whopper (2021)
Combining poor image/found footage of the reveal of Wendy Williams’ Madame Tussauds wax figure with algorithmic frame interpolation to enhance an obsessive gaze (superstimulus) towards the uncanny nature of wax reproduction and talk-show spectacle. Inspired by a meme combining the same YouTube footage with the soundtrack of Annihilation (2018), a movie in which the main character in the climax of the movie faces a silver humanoid entity that transforms in an identical copy of her. In the choreography of Bobbi June Smith, is a brutal confrontation between the two carbon copies, in which the main character is quickly overwhelmed by the weight of her own self.
Video part of official selection of Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators online film program with screening at RENEENEE Amsterdam and part of Telemagic 1 Euro Cinema, screened at KO(o)RTS short film festival in Enschede.
(video—4:57)