Untitled, 2023

Video Montage*. Footage from Hitchcock, A. (Director). (1960). Psycho [Film]. Shamley Productions.

Untitled, 2023 is a looped video edit of the shower scene from Psycho, cut so that it ends without tragedy.

The unheimlich of watching the scene never reach its climax, exposes the ‘money shot’ value of women’s brutalisation in film. By manufacturing the relief of ‘the bad thing not happening’ the piece draws the viewer's attention to the undercurrent of fear that women live with under patriarchy, which has simply become the air we breathe.

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