Supercut: Treppen in Alfred-Hitchcock-Filmen

Max Tohline hat insgesamt 39 Szenen aus dem Œuvre Alfred Hitchcocks zusammengestellt, die Treppen involviert haben. Nicht wundern, dass es ab der Mitte alles irgendwie bekannt vorkommt, die Reihenfolge bekommen wir doppelt gezeigt (anstatt, dass er einfach die Loop-Funktion des vimeo-Players aktiviert hat, aber gut…). Der Supercut wird nämlich auf Ausstellungen in Dauerschleife als Kunstobjekt präsentiert.

„In the first shot of Alfred Hitchcock’s first film, The Pleasure Garden (1925), a line of women stream down a spiral staircase backstage at a theater. In the last shot of Hitchcock’s last film, Family Plot (1976), Barbara Harris sits down on a staircase, looks into the camera, and winks. In the fifty years and over fifty films between these bookends, Hitchcock made the staircase a recurring motif in his complex grammar of suspense — a device by which potential energy could be, metaphorically and literally, loaded into narrative, a zone of unsteady or vertiginous passage from one space to another, always on the verge of becoming a site of violence. Nearly every Hitchcock film includes stairs somewhere — with the exceptions of a few films in which the setting precluded it (Lifeboat (1944) and Rope (1948), for instance) or in which the genre did not call for it (in his only outright comedy, Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), they use elevators to get everywhere).“

Quelle: kottke