Last Concert of Marlene Dietrich
The departure point for this work was the reviewing of a life lived in luxury, and the difficulty of stars and athletes to when to know when to finish their careers, using newsreel footage of the farewell concerts of Marlene Dietrich in her 70’s. The black and white footage has been colorized using personal memory color of the 1970’s popular use of hot pink. Text revealing her long goodbye and distaste for being “photographed to death” is scrolled across the screen slowly as her image is displayed in and out of focus. Using a computer program that allowed the footage to be played line by line of pixels at a time, bands of color slowly replace the image with moving color filling the screen.
5:00 Single Channel silent video.
2004-2007 |
