This film is an experiment in outsourcing everyday life. In it we hired 50 actors to take over all aspects of our daily routines and roles as parents, spouses, professors, artists and friends. The actors play opposite their real counterparts - our kids, our students, our friends, in our studio, presenting our work.

Courtesy of the Independent Imaging Retreat. Compiled by Philip Hoffman.

FILMS & EXCERPTS:
Minus by Chris Chong (1999)
We are Going Home by Jenn Reeves (1999)
Behind this Soft Eclipse by Eve Heller (2004)
Hardwood Process by David Gatten (1998)
Disenchanted by Sarah Lightbody
Across by Cara Morton (1997)
Fall by Deirdre Logue (1997)

35mm to digital video, 2004, 8 min.
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"24 Second Psycho" appropriates the entire Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho" and condenses it into twenty-four seconds. Tweaking the concept of artist Douglas Gordon’s "24 Hour Psycho," where Hitchcock’s masterpiece was slowed-down to a crawl, here the process is reversed to accommodate society’s increasingly short attention span. Seeing Hitchcock’s most lasting contribution to cinema flash before your eyes in a matter of seconds represents our new information age where culture is packaged for easy consumption at a breakneck pace.
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