Limite (text @ Rolling Stone)

LIMITE - Everyone is familiar with movie trailers, the short marketing video that groups together snippets from a new film's various scenes to arouse the curiosity of the public before its release. Ignoring the traditional definition and functionality of the format, the artist Debora Hirsch decided to create some 'posthumous' trailers of the 1931 film Limite. Her reason? Limite, from director Mário Peixoto, is often considered the high-water mark in the history of Brazilian cinema, and yet it was never commercially released. Hirsch created not one, but three trailers, each using only the original images and sounds of the film, heralding the fictitious upcoming release of the film. One of the trailers incorporates Hollywood style, another introduces the characters and the basic plot of the film and the third focuses on the director and his thematic intentions.

  • DEBORA HIRSCH
  • Bio
    • Biography
  • Firmamento
    • Paintings
    • Video
    • Text
  • Mirrors
    • The Iconography of Silence (Sentences)
  • Donotclickthru
    • www.donotclickthru.com
    • Paintings and Drawings
    • Text
  • Installations
    • NIMBY works
    • NIMBY video
    • NIMBY texts
    • Framed works
    • Framed videos
    • Framed texts
    • BR 101 videos
    • BR 101 works
    • BR 101 texts
    • Limite works
    • Limite videos
    • Limite text
  • Others
    • Fateful Space performance @WhiteBox
    • Mussels performance @Rob Pruitt Flea Market
    • Sovrapposizione
    • Cluster Memories
    • Before Nightfall
    • Limite
    • The Last Supper
    • ETIX
    • Lachesis
    • Lad Evian Ah Come Mad Ya video
    • Selected paintings
    • Selected texts
    • Other projects
  • Contact
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